February 14th, 2012 
Ethan Merrick 
Artist: My Ticket Home
Album: To Create a Cure
Genre: Hardcore/Screamo
Label: Rise Records
For their first official release, My Ticket Home have constructed To Create a Cure. The album is an all to familiar blend of; guttural and clean vocals, an explosive rhythm section and thrashing guitars. However, despite the album’s feel of old-hat the five-piece have managed to craft several moments, for better or for worse, worth noting.
The album’s opening track “A New Breed” opens with an animalistic howl, the “clatter-boom” of drums and gritty skitter of guitar. All of that promise ends abruptly when Sean Mackowski, guitarist and clean vocalist, comes in during the chorus. Mackowski’s vocals feel out of place among the cacophonic atmosphere that front man Nick Giumenti and the rest of the band have created. To be perfectly honest Mackowski’s vocals would be much more suitable on American Idol.
With that being said, for being labeled as a hardcore band, My Ticket Home made a terrible judgement call in allowing the track “The Dream Code” to be included onto the album. Hell, it was a terrible idea even to record the song. As one of the longest tracks on the album “The Dream Code,” features delicate piano work and is a radio-friendly Daughtry-esque ballad sung by Mackowski. Any momentum that they band had built up during the previous tracks was completely lost.
The band’s shinning moments occur sporadically throughout the album. Generally these were the moments where screams and shouts were at their most throat tearing, the guitar riffs were sharp and bass was at its heaviest. Unfortunately these moments never filled an entire track and only made brief appearances. However, “A Thief of One, A Thief of Many” comes the closest.
To Create a Cure does not find My Ticket Home pushing the hardcore genre into any new or enjoyable territories. In fact, the album may actually have hurt the genre. (If that last statement seemed like an over exaggeration just listen to “The Dream Code” all the way through. I dare you.)
Score: 4/10
Review written by: Ethan Merrick
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please note that Sean Mc does the clean vocals on this album before he left to be an employee of Attack Attack! Derek hasn’t done any vocals yet