Hello Fascination

Personnel: Eric Armenta (drums).
Audio Mixers: Matt Squire; Mike Green .
Recording information: The Green Room, Los Angeles, CA; The Lair, Los Angeles, CA.
Photographer: Jason Paul Roberts.
If screamo's angst-ridden, tension-and-release hinges on vocals that are deployed as a kind of crescendo element when the music reaches a fever pitch of emotion, the same can be said for the trance genre, at least in terms of musical structure. Denver's Breathe Carolina, against all common sense logic, blend high energy, synth-based club dance with the aggression and spastic intensity of screamo's vocal howl. HELLO FASCINATION, the band's sophomore release, is laced with the kind of acid-against- sweet harmonization typical of some the genre's poppier entrants, sent into overdrive with thumping electronic beats, pitch-altered vocals, and epic synthesizer pads.