Review of 'Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Sometimes people say "less is more," and I certainly find myself saying that with all these horror novellas I've been devouring this year.
A new band no one's ever heard of before starts putting out a track a day on Bandcamp and it's literally unlike anything anyone has ever heard before. People lose track of time and hours pass by even though the track is only a few minutes long. Actively listening to a track with someone else unlocks a sort of mind-to-mind communication that shouldn't be possible. A music blogger (I don't think he ever gives his name) manages to be the first one to write an article on it, and the lead singer invites him out to a show where they're going to premiere the fourth song.
The premise had me hooked; the ending kind of lost me.
This is the kind of story that, despite being about …
Sometimes people say "less is more," and I certainly find myself saying that with all these horror novellas I've been devouring this year.
A new band no one's ever heard of before starts putting out a track a day on Bandcamp and it's literally unlike anything anyone has ever heard before. People lose track of time and hours pass by even though the track is only a few minutes long. Actively listening to a track with someone else unlocks a sort of mind-to-mind communication that shouldn't be possible. A music blogger (I don't think he ever gives his name) manages to be the first one to write an article on it, and the lead singer invites him out to a show where they're going to premiere the fourth song.
The premise had me hooked; the ending kind of lost me.
This is the kind of story that, despite being about music, is best told in a written medium because it would be hard to actually compose music that could approximate what the songs in this story were actually accomplishing. The protagonist was logical and didn't make any decisions that left me scratching my head or shouting at the book (one of my personal cardinal sins of horror). And I really liked a sort of almost-cosmic horror story being told in the setting of a rock band on tour; it was definitely a unique take on the genre. The main (and really only) issue I had was when things started being explained I was left with a feeling of, "oh, that's where this is going?" Without spoiling anything, I just wish more would have been left unexplained, but this book was so short that I don't feel like I was robbed of my time or had the rug pulled out from under me.
