
Not bad, but not very good either! - Not a bad album, especially for those Goths who prefer the more Poppy, lighter side of things!Amy Lee has a good voice. The music all sound a bit the same though.Good tracks are Going Under, My Immortal and Tourniquet.My only gripe is Evanescence have ripped off older Europian bands like Within Temptation, and have got really successful from it.Still, a good CD though, especially for younger listeners.
Outstanding - This is just a fantastic album, with varying sounds and types of music. Expresses emotions ranging from anger to sadness, just a beautifully created album, I can t recommend this enough.
fabulous - I do not know if I have anything more to add to what the other reviewers have said, but I wanna say that this is a fantastic album, just wow. could not stop listening to it. I loved the choice of songs, the lyrics are good, and it is just unbeatable. amazing cd.
The best sound since...the previous best sound - I recently got into Evanescence, and this was the first album of theirs I bought. I was amazed at how mature the music was, how the lyrics were so beautiful I cried. This is the type of music you want to hear more. I have listened to this album pretty much every day since I bought it. It never gets old. If you are debating on whether to buy this, it is not a waste of money! Includes the singles: Bring Me To Life, Going Under, My Immortal, Everybody s Fool and Imaginary
ALL THESE SONGS COULD BE CHART HITS - Fallen is the major-label debut of Evanescence, a Little Rock, AR-based quartet led by the soaring vocals of 20-year-old Amy Lee. Emboldened by the inclusion of its single Bring Me to Life on the soundtrack to the hit film Daredevil, Fallen debuted at an impressive number seven on Billboard s Top 40. But Bring Me to Life is a bit misleading. A flawless slice of Linkin Park-style anguish pop, it s actually a duet between Lee and 12 Stones Paul McCoy. In fact, almost half of Fallen s 11 songs are piano-driven ballads that suggest Tori Amos if she wore too much mascara and recorded for the Projekt label. The other half of the album does include flashes of the single s PG-rated nu-metal (Everybody s Fool, Going Under). But it s the symphonic goth rock of groups like Type O Negative that influences most of Fallen. Ethereal synths float above Ben Moody s crunching guitar in Haunted, while Whisper even features apocalyptic strings and a scary chorus of Latin voices right out of Carmina Burana. Tourniquet is an anguished, urgent rocker driven by chugging guitars and spiraling synths, with brooding lyrics that reference Evanescence s Christian values: Am I too lost to be saved?/Am I too lost?/My God! My tourniquet/Return to me salvation. The song is Fallen s emotional center point and defines the band s sound.