Alternative rock band, Shiny Toy Guns, effectively combines softer ballads with sharper rock beats in their newest album, Season of Poison. Each song showcases the range of vocals from co-lead vocalists, Gregori Chad Petree and Sisily Treasure, especially heard in “Ricochet!” which combines Treasure’s soft voice with Petree’s harder voice that could be compared to a metal singer.
Season of Poison offers a broad arrange of styles including dance, rock, and electronic. The album’s style resembles Death Cab for Cutie in its opening song, “Money For That,” Postal Service in a personal favorite, “I Owe You a Love Song,” which has a great and intricate underlying techno beat on top of a rock sound, and U2’s “City of Blinding Lights,” emulated in “Turned to Real Life.”
One of the most powerful songs on the album is “Poison,” an eight-minute track that sounds like something heard in a rock opera. It’s fantastical style leads from soft vocals to rock, and ends with a funeral organ creating an eerie sound that makes you expect to see an array of flashing lights appear.
