Labels: Immigrant Sun
Review by: Andy Malcolm
Now this is the fucking business. From the packaging to the music, it’s got it all. Apart from the production.
The packaging is absolutely beautiful – top notch glossy card, with the lyrics on the inside, and a folded bit of card with some other info on it plus the song titles.
The music is absolutely noisy. Emotional hardcore in the best possible sense (in that it doesn’t dispense with the melody), and the kind of emo you just don’t hear that often. First up, “Second Step Still” is a bit muddy, lots of guitars going on in the mix, and lots of oomph too. Shouted sung vocals are complemented by the desperate screams of the backing singer. You got more of the same on “Spoken Silence”. But the best is yet to come with “If Tomorrow Ever Gets There”, which fills the entire b-side. Kicks off with the required jangle and prettiness of many an emo rock band, then picks up the heaviness quotient and brings it to the show, stirring up a storm of crunching guitars and swirling vocals.
With better production you can tell these guys would be totally immense. My kinda emo.