You Say Party! We Say Die!: XXXX

You Say Party! We Say Die!: XXXX
Canadian dance-punk band, You Say Party! We Say Die! release their third full length album, XXXX finally in the US after its been available for several months in Canada. The album's release coincides with a major US tour.
Being a dance band with female vocals, You Say Party! We Say Die! is sure to get comparisons to CSS. The comparisons are not completely off base: a girl with kind of an accent sings/shouts over rock-based dance music. But YSP!WSD! has a feeling of melancholy about them, where CSS seems to only care about partying.
The album's first single "Laura Palmer's Prom" is a slower song with contemplative synthesizers, similar to the type of songs you might dance to at a prom. The track is definitely melancholy with the chorus lyrics being "my heart needs a love dance" and sung in that emotive way that Karen O sang in "Maps".
The album's major flaw is finishing strong. The album seems all downhill after "Laura Palmer's Prom" which is the seventh track on the album. XXXX goes out with a whimper with the most timid and least dancy songs on the album.
Overall, the album puts forth some great tracks but its hard to get over the weak ending. For the first half of the album, it appears that it will be great and then it ends mired in mediocrity.
Rating: 6.3/10
MP3: You Say Party! We Say Die! "Glory"
Buy: iTunes