House of Heroes "Suburba"

A punky and string-led number that burns with conviction, yet does not hurt to the sound may become engrained in your mind; as it starts the record in a big way; the message and hook will be "Relentless" when it comes to your memory. This is not your ordinary "Elevator"music, this seems more like a song made for the mosh pit with killer percussion in the last half, that jumping bassand the riff; it's powerful, hooky, yet dignified . "Love is For The Middle Class" is a punky riff-driven track about a young man's struggle with money and love, but  "If all I had was love, would I still be lovely/I all I gave was love, would you give up on me/But if you measure love in false securities/I owe you nothin' at all/Don't owe you nothin' at all/Don't need your lovin' at all." I feel "So Far Away" which is more laidback than the previous songs. "God Save The Foolish Kings" is for the outcasts sick of being pushed around and ready to fight back, I'm sick of it too, "But I met God on the street tonight/And he said,/'Choose your battles wisely/Or you'll never find Me';" it has some nice female vocals asking the foolish king not to do anything crazy."Salt in the Sea" is another slower heartfelt song, but makes a nice teeter totter with the power of "Independence Day For the Petty Thief." Let's say the track has an funky-rock sound that sort of drums like a hip hop track. "Somebody Knows" I'm either getting lazy or have nothing poignant to say, wait a second, when do I ever? HA!! It's slow but "Somebody knows/They're following the clues and/Tying up the loose ends/That we left at the scene/And when we're exposed/A jury of our peers can/Deliberate the facts and/Hear our last play." The next song just makes me want to "Dissapper" so no one can unexpectedly catch me rocking out.The song starts sloow, and you're probably like wtf?It slowly builds into a great air guitar hop. Another rocky with bad-bass attitude dedicated to "My lady, unpredictable/She preach file and brimstone in the study hall/In darkness, she's a lightening bolt/She's so powerful" among many other desciptors and metaphors.If anything, "She Mighty Mighty,"and she drives those drums when needed, but perfers to "come down" as those drums are driven and saves the day. A wise man once said that the only thing "Constant" is change, and without change stagnation will cause progress to rot and decay and regress.This is about how the only other thing constant was the love and support that the lord provides, and does so in an old school piano rock; it's heartfelt, but not sappy, and sounds more genuine than the piano rock made for radio. I suggest you "Burn Me Down," but like a pheonix I will rise from the ashes, or at least I hope so. Let's just say that if this last song is an indicatiion as to what we are to expect from their third record, then let's just say they are pretty flame-retardant, and resistant to going up in flames, in sound anyway. IfIHadToChooseOnly7Tracks: Relentless, Elevator, Love is For The Middle Class, Independence Day For A Petty Thief, Dissappear, She Mighty Mighty, and Burn Me Down.