Age does not necessarily indicate musical ability but for my American Heart a band who wrote their debut when most of the members was only 16 makes good music has just been extended by three years of touring experience and knowledge acquired in San Diego five sometime dynamic innovative second record is reflected by a sense of newfound wisdom and the kind of skills that come only from the hard-earned experience, a reminder of how shockingly young the makers of the disc is actually The strikingly varied disc metaphorically right hiding in the Horrible Weather to enter the beauty that is in itself of all the floats from hooky driving rock ("The Shake (awful Feeling)" and "Boys! Take your Guns") to introspective acoustic ballad ("Tired and uninspired") to expansive searchr, which shows a whole new side of My American Heart ("Dangerous" and "Fantasy") Soliman texts are much more refined, spinning with clever twists and poetically-inclined verses-yet another brilliant aspect of the apparent growth of the Report
hiding in Horrible Weather is the result of six months of heavy writing time, although some of the album's tracks come from nearly a year before it was recorded after the band's beloved debut the meaning in makeup as the group believes was a rush for this record My American Heart had time to really craft what they consider to be an album that shows how far they have come, "We actually took our time to write this record," Soliman says "It was great fun to create this record sing and express themselves and actually growing as musicians totogether just to figure out what we can, it was definitely a big step up from the last album "
Armed with new guitarist Matthew VanGasbeck earlier in Downtown Singapore, who joined the writing process in November My American Heart entered the studio February 4, after thinning a long list of possible producers, the group chose James Paul Wisner producer behind bands like Underoath The Academy Is and Dashboard Confessional as Soliman calls the "perfect for this record" In Wisner St. Cloud, FL Studio, just south of Orlando quintet dove with its head in a supportive creative environment that helped them pen the next tracks to the album "He helped us really explore ideas and he really listened to the song," Barrera notes of the experience "He was a big part of the so-calledivan "
My American Heart has certainly not avoided their engaging pop feelings but also former disbelievers will not be able to deny the extent and strength of the songwriting on hiding the terrible weather, or remember the tracks that the band hopes will be drawn to any listener who happen to hear them when the big step up, this is a solid one, and the significance of this is not lost on My American Heart "I just want people to really open their minds to it and think about how much we have grown since the last album "Soliman says" We have really learned that we are better than what we thought we could be "
