By: Keir Bristol
Rating: 4/11

Remember when everyone tried to do that dance-punk thing, thanks to the success of such bands as Panic! At The Disco and Fallout Boy? Electronica-new-wave band Blip Blip Bleep took a cue from Patrick Stump and Brendan Urie, except they replaced most of the guitars with synths and shortened their song titles. The result? Mediocre harmonies, bad songwriting and a horrible cover of The Cure’s “A Letter To Elise.” Some songs should just not be touched,  and “A Letter To Elise” is one of them.

The first thought that would pop into most people’s minds listening to Blip Blip Bleep’s new album Like Track Stars is “Didn’t I hear this band at Warped Tour?” And you probably didn’t, but it’s likely you heard a band that sounded just like them. The second thought would probably be, “Is this a cheap version of 3OH!3?” and the answer would be “Yes.”

Not to say that they aren’t worth dancing to, if one were drunk enough and had no shame. After the “Rock (Intro)” in which the first lyrics belt “One Two Three Four Five Six Seven, Why Doesn’t This Thing Go To Eleven?” Blip Blip Bleep moves into the repetitive-as-hell “Freak You Out,” which was probably written about a girl the lead singer Sean Han was either grinding with at a college party or having sex with. Whichever would work.

In the middle of the album comes “Like Track Stars,” a song about a Brooklyn girl with “country blond hair” that attempts to be deep and metaphoric, and just ends up being cliché. It moves on to the aforementioned “Letter” after “Broken Strings,” and ends with “Rewrite The Scenes,” a song about the same girl, plus dark eye-makeup and an iPod with an indie rock playlist. And if that wasn’t enough for you, Blip Blip Bleep graces their listeners with a remix of “Freak You Out,” and the “Rock (Intro)/(Reprise).”