This article is within the scope of WikiProject Albums, an attempt at building a useful resource on recordings from a variety of genres. We feel less and less concerned with coming off as cool and calculated and have decided, instead, to just write simpler pop tunes."The Hidden Names also benefits from a winning chemistry in and out of the studio, on.
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The end line, repeated over and over, is really a call to arms, to never let others decide your values for you, to never let ignorance and pride lead the way."The Hidden Names is the lovely and logical successor to Ambiguoso, 2008's previous full-length for Nine Mile Records and the first Parlour Steps album, (after three previous albums, including 2005's acclaimed The Great Perhaps) to get a full United States release."The confidence on The Hidden Names comes from the rather successful experiments in pop simplicity of our work on Ambiguoso," says Stull, who also produces the band's work. The opening track, the buoyant "As the World Turned Out," for example, attempts to explore "our laughable, small- lensed grip on ourselves," while "Miraculous," says Stull, "riffs on our nihilistic self-absorption, so woefully out of place in such a massive universe as ours."Stull calls "Soft Lies," "a simple love song about getting mired in too much self-awareness," while the closing tune "Mad Mad Day" he describes as detailing "our common alienation of 'others,' and our general suspicions that people different from us couldn't possibly want and need the same things out of life. But it is Caleb Stull's relentless curiosity and daring songwriting that separates the quartet from the indie-rock pack. Lauded by the Canadian press, Parlour Steps has at various times evoked comparisons to the brainy pop of XTC, the drama of Arcade Fire, the lyrical focus of Sufjan Stevens and the snappy rhythmic grip of the Pixies. But a newfound musical confidence gives a carefree flow to the band's music, with a vivacious presence and palpable warmth. The keen intelligence, the ambitious ideas, the pride in tackling heady, cerebral concepts that has characterized the band from Vancouver, British Columbia, from the get-go remain intact. The October 2009 release of The Hidden Names by Nine Mile Records act Parlour Steps should finally put a spotlight on one of Canada's most intriguing bands."If there is an overall theme to be distilled it would be of the never-ending search for meaning and connection in today's world," Caleb Stull, the band's founder, chief songwriter, singer and guitarist says of the album. Check out the first single "Better Than Me" for just a taste of Bobflex's pumped up, muscular rock. Now Dave Mustaine is paying them compliments as they share the same stage night after night with Megadeth, Fear Factory, Dream Theatre, Dillenger Escape Plan and Life of Agony. In fact, Bobaflex already had two Sevendust tours under their belt when the opportunity to join the Gigantour came up. "Apologize For Nothing" is an appropriate title for the quintet's debut on TVT Records, the label that brought Sevendust to prominence. And why should they care? They're just happy to be on the road and out of the small town existence the band's core grew up with in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Their influences range from System Of A Down to Queen. Mostly, the songs on "Apologize For Nothing" rock outrageously hard because Bobaflex is willing to try anything that sounds good, and couldn’t care less how any of it might make them look. There are four singers in the band, so the angle of attack constantly shifts, which is partly why the band’s songs careen around your brain far longer than hard rock’s usual offerings.
Bobaflex is an odd beast, a bracing mix of heavy riffage, hip-hop-inspired beats and alternately growling and soaring vocals.
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