[MUSIC] My Ticket Home – To Create A Cure [REVIEW]

MY TICKET HOME
To Create A Cure
[Rise Records]
Verdict: 6.5/10
RIYL: ATTACK ATTACK!, LIKE MOTHS TO FLAMES & OF MICE & MEN

With metalcore being the undying giant that it is, there’s bound to be an overabundance of bands that try their hand at it. Some good. Most bad. A good majority are kind of hard to distinguish from other, more established acts. Rise Records has an uncanny knack for signing and promoting bands in this genre that do very well, loved or hated. Bands like ATTACK ATTACK!, WOE, IS ME and OF MICE & MEN are great at what they do, but the throngs of clones come out in spades. In 2009 a young band from Columbus, Ohio, named MY TICKET HOME released an EP entitled Above The Great City. It showed great promise, as far as metalcore goes. 2010. The band get taken under the wings of ATTACK ATTACK!’s Caleb Shomo (a band who not so ironically are from Columbus as well) and release EP #2, The Opportunity To Be (as well as a cover of Katy Perry’s ‘Firework’) which showed even more promise as the band started to take their own shape, so to speak. With the release of To Create A Cure, the AA! comparisons are almost too apparent. It’s not that this is necessarily a bad thing, but when a band is trying to find their own identity, sounding too similar to your ‘big brother’ of a band is a negative. Musically, To Create A Cure is a solid release. Fantastic grooves, smooth melodies and an overall vibe of urgency. Where MY TICKET HOME falter a little, is apparent on the first track and single, ‘A New Breed’. Vocalist Nick Giumenti sounds too much like Caleb Shomo. That aside, the music overall is pretty good. It makes one want to move, which is ultimately the point of a bands existence. With that being said, where MTH excel and set themselves apart from their ‘elders’ lies in the more mellower tracks like ‘The Dream Code’. It is written and performed flawlessly and full of the necessary passion. It isn’t a prefabricated, carefully inserted ‘ballad’ by any means. It is what keeps this band afloat along with the heavier tracks like ‘Dark Days’ and album closer ‘Fear Complex’, MY TICKET HOME still show promise and are a band to keep an eye on. To Create A Cure is in no way a bad record, it’s merely a stepping stone for future greatness.           -by Jon Hole

Recommended listening: ‘The Dream Code’, ‘Dark Days’ & ‘Fear Complex’.
Production credits: Produced by Caleb Shomo.
Release date: January 31, 2012
In conclusion…My Ticket Home are still in the process of finding themselves but To Create A Cure is not a bad listen if listening to the same 4 or 5 metalcore giants gets old. My Ticket Home show promise. Give em a chance.