Local Review: Rope or Bullets – Call It for What You Want

Rope or Bullets
Call It for What You Want

Rope or Bullets = Atom and His Package + Modern English

 

From the band that brought you “I Love Personality,” the outright best song on the Death By Salt compilation, comes a six-song precursor to a full-length album. Rope or Bullets, though not the rockin’est band in the scene (which isn’t at all what they’re going for), is probably the most intelligent and creative. So intelligent, in fact, that they have figured out how to write songs that invoke a myriad of emotions without being whiny and emo. Dual vocalists belt out heartfelt tunes with senses of humor and life and love over super-catchy electro-pop melodies that make you feel happy, but not in any sort of “ignorance is bliss” way. Brilliant.