Hannah Vs The Many has created a second album, All Our Heroes Drank Here, that sounds like a mash up of an over-done Glee episode and a high school musical theater production. Hannah Fairchild claims she moved to New York City to try to join “the city’s seedy underground musical theater community” and it shows in her second album. The vocals are half lyrical, half spoken-word child poems that try to channel Regina Spektor yet fail miserably.
The track listing on All Our Heroes Drank Here is limited to ten songs full of novice piano playing and sometimes-alright vocals. When Fairchild chooses to sing, her voice is amiable. “Muse” gives a nod to early pop tunes with a Beatles inspired intro and vintage inspired guitar distortion, on which Fairchild sings “If love is so important, why can’t we find a better word for it.”
The first track of the album, “Biography of Cells” is the only redeeming song on the album. It is a hate-love song sang by an angry female voice reminiscent of Alanis Morrisette’s strong female voice. . “Better Off My Way” borrows from Doo-Wop with a mixture of production that sounds like it could have been on the grease soundtrack. Fairchild uses her strengths as a strong-willed woman to set the tone for All Our Heroes Drank Here on the first track, then lets the rest of the album fall into a realm of terrible producing combined with novice piano playing, too wrong to be used as background music.
Hannah Vs The Many lost on All Our Heroes Drank Here. If The Many are catchy pop tunes streaming on the FM waves across America, Fairchild just got KO’ed.
Last Words: Don’t choose angsty female spoken word voices in a music fight.
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