Amber Pacific

Item: The Possibility and the Promise
Author: John Durkee

The Possibility and the Promise

(2005)

Reviewed by John Durkee

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Label Hopeless RecordsDecapolisMay 2005

emo pop punk

I had heard "Always You (Good Times)," by Amber Pacific around a year ago on the fifth compilation of Hopelessly Devoted to You, and thought it was a fairly good song. I read a bad review of their EP (on the very site you're reading this review from) some time later and hadn't bothered with them since. As I put on The Possibility and the Promise, Amber Pacific's first LP, in my CD player I heard sugary and hook-filled pop/punk. Not surprisingly, the album gets old quickly, and while it has a few decent tracks, overall, "Always You" is by far their best song.

I put The Possibility and the Promise to the same test of the review for Fading Days EP, and came to the same conclusion of Amber Pacific. They flatters Taking Back Sunday and Jimmy Eat World, just as the saying goes, "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." Until Amber Pacific can go beyond their influences, they'll never reach their full potential.

1.5/4