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Gerard Way has wiped the slate clean and started afresh, with invigorating results. UFOSeek News 2013: Gerard Way Hesitant Alien Album Cover Unveiled on Twitter, Former My. The catchy ’60s lilt of ‘Millions’ proves he can do pop too, as guitars wash over abstract lyrics (“Lets make up everything and wake up breathing/Don’t give a damn about the wreck you leave in”). An obscure era just prior to grunge and Britpop of the 90s, while also drawing on these post-shoegaze movements. The album fits perfectly into the shoegazing genre. ‘Maya The Psychic’ is drawn from Ash’s book of radio bangers and the hazy tambourine shake of ‘Drugstore Perfume’ makes sense of Way’s recent live covers of The Jesus And Mary Chain’s ‘Snakedriver’. Hesitant Alien was the result, and it did not disappoint. ‘Aladdin Sane’-era Bowie informs the punchy strut of each song. But it’s ‘Get The Gang Together’ that’s the outstanding highlight – riff-heavy and sleazy, it’s like Queens Of The Stone Age after an androgynous makeover.Įlsewhere however, British influences abound. ‘No Shows’ flits between epic anthemics and fuzzy soloing, and the prowling bass of ‘Zero Zero’ dominates the song’s distorted vocals. Opening track ‘Bureau’ is built around descending chords that find Way’s new backing band The Hormones all dressed up in Suede: Way’s most obvious touchstone here is Brett Anderson’s damaged theatrical glamour. Es zeigt Gerard Way mit roten Haaren und roter Krawatte in einem blauen Anzug. But the biggest surprise of all is that he succeeds in his reinvention with barely a misstep. So langsam aber sicher nimmt es Form an: Nachdem Gerard Way jüngst bereits den Titel 'Hesitant Alien' seines Solo-Debüts sowie den Veröffentlichungstermin (26.09.) bekannt gegeben hatte, gibt es nun ein weiteres, nicht ganz unwichtiges Puzzle-Teil: das Album-Cover.
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Far from MCR’s high-octane tantrums, it’s a surprising album full of hooks informed by the melodies of Britpop. Im pretty proud of this one but i dont know if i should add line art with a pen cuz i kinda. Way is hoping ‘Hesitant Alien’ will rid him of emo pin-up status for good. Heres my drawing of the Hesitant Alien album cover by Gerard Way. “I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want the acceptance of people my own age.” “Grown-ups would look at what we were doing and say, ‘This is high school music’,” the 37-year-old explained. While making this debut solo record, he looked deliberately beyond the MCR-my. Then, having built a career on being the pasty-faced poster boy for a generation of teenage angst, he decided to aim for an older crowd. Unable to cope after the release of their 2010 album ‘ Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys’, he turned to alcohol. All this means that for as much as Way refers to other acts, this is a thoroughly original work, a vibrant reflection of all his artistic obsessions.In August, Gerard Way admitted to NME that he disbanded My Chemical Romance in 2013 because life had led him to a “dark place” where he was “self-medicating to get through”. The clever thing about Hesitant Alien is, for as much as it consciously references the past, it's a record that never could've been played on college radio in 1990: the razor-thin guitars are too loud, the progressive pomp leans too heavily on '70s concept albums, Way retains the trappings of emo in his heated delivery but not his aesthetic. Sometimes Way creates a swirling, circular pastiche, sometimes he creates de facto tributes to individual bands ("Millions" is a dead ringer for prime Stone Roses), the two approaches blending to create a heady rush of sexy, stylish postmodern futurism. Rex stomps and flirts with Bowie's interstellar swagger - not to mention his cadence sometimes echoes Eno and he's savvy enough to thread saxophone into the background on "Get the Gang Together" - but the heart of Hesitant Alien lies in the late '80s and early '90s, the time when all the arty strands of British and American post-punk converged on 120 Minutes. Such deliberate allusions are Gerard Way's sly nod to his audience, an admission of how he belongs to an art-punk tradition that stretches back several decades, but his first solo effort after the disbandment of My Chemical Romance isn't a re-creation of the glory days of glam. Promoting his debut solo album Hesitant Alien, Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance covers the sophomore issue of Nylon Guys Espaol. The very title of Hesitant Alien conjures memories of David Bowie, just like how the album artwork evokes the Thin White Duke's iconic cover for Heroes (which was later repurposed for Bowie's own The Next Day).