PS I Love You
For Those Who Stay
Reviewed By: Lara Supan
Let’s just cut to the chase here. This album is horrifically bad.
PS I Love You will hurt your ears. Literally. Lead singer Paul Saulnier sounds like a pre-pubescent boy being tortured, and not in the “hip, punk-rock” way they obviously wanted it to sound like. The distortion throughout the album is terribly overbearing and the synth sounds used make it sound like they were going for a “just got abducted by aliens” vibe. The instrumentals are average, amateur at best, but nothing compares to the squalling cat noise that is the lead vocal throughout the album. Oh, and the lyrics aren’t any good either, even though you won’t be able to understand 90% of them because of the wall of reverb applied to anything that makes sound.
For an example of this torturous display of sounds, “Bad Brain Day” starts out with what sounds like a dial tone, and ends with what can only be described as the spaceship taking off. In between those two things, there is some whining about some incomprehensible topic and it ends with the line “I had a bad brain day, and you made it go away” followed by over a minute of “ooo”ing. The last track on the album “Hoarders” has something that literally breaks and shatters in the middle of it, which I can only imagine symbolizes the state of the listener’s ear drums after getting that far into this CD.
The only way you’ll like this album is if you’ve had a fantasy about McLovin from Superbad making a solo album. Otherwise, don’t stick around for For Those Who Stay, if for nothing else but your own health.
Rating: 
