Captain, We're Sinking
The Future Is Cancelled


4.9
classic

Review

by Iluvatar USER (168 Reviews)
May 29th, 2013 | 1770 replies


Release Date: 2013 | Tracklist

Review Summary: The Future is Cancelled is a perfect punk album. Get it before it's not cool anymore

Captain, We're Sinking! is a punk band. They sound a lot like if The Menzingers had a baby with Hot Water Music and then added in terribly depressive, metaphorically dystopian lyrics about lives falling apart and general dissatisfaction. The Future is Canceled is an album that defies pretty much everything it can be categorically described as: it is a punk album that is way too technical, a pop punk album that is just too impressive; there is a point in the second half of the album where a massive bridge seems like the only logical way the album could end, but then the next song comes back with an even bigger and more emotionally intense chorus and you begin to wonder if the album ever should end. CWS have found that elusive balance between melody, dissonance, and songwriting that only the greatest punk bands ever figure out, and seeing as this is only their debut it makes it all the more impressive. I could (and in previous drafts, did) go on and on about why a song like “Annina, We Will Miss You” undercuts the human condition so effortlessly while sounding like The Wonder Years finally making that perfect song they've been looking for, why a ballad like “A Bitter Divorce” is so huge and haunting that it makes most album closers seem like nonsense, but by the time you get to the part where CWS yell “Now Jesus Christ I'm not what you had in mind/ Jesus Christ don't cry/ I made a list of everything that I despise/ and I wrote your name down several times” no amount of me extolling the virtues of this record will matter. You will be in love with this little band from Scranton, and you'll be the one struggling to figure out what The Future Is Cancelled means to you.

Now I see her writing on her skin with a ball point pen
She says "I'm dead, but goddamn I will rise again"
And she ate a hand full of pills
and washed them down with some Pepsi
Is it my time to be happy?
Is it my time to be happy?




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Comments:Add a Comment 
Lambda
May 29th 2013


2654 Comments


The Future is Cancelled is a perfect punk album.

4.6 ?

oltnabrick
May 29th 2013


40765 Comments


its not cool anymore

Atari
Staff Reviewer
May 29th 2013


28009 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

album rules

Scoot
May 29th 2013


22697 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

fucking awesome stuff



jesus this year is stellar

SeaAnemone
May 29th 2013


21429 Comments


I like Menzingers but I do not like HWM will I like their baby
and aren't Menzingers from Scranton as well?

Tyrael
May 29th 2013


21108 Comments


2013 needs more good death metal

and thrash needs to make a comeback

if that happens then this will be the best year ever

Scoot
May 29th 2013


22697 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

you might dig this a bit

Atari
Staff Reviewer
May 29th 2013


28009 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

"2013 needs more good death metal"



not as long as we keep getting amazing pop-punk :D







Tyrael
May 29th 2013


21108 Comments


'not as long as we keep getting amazing pop-punk :D'

fucking lol

Scoot
May 29th 2013


22697 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

john you might as well just 5 it at this point



i dont know if i like this better than on the impossible past yet, too soon to tell

Atari
Staff Reviewer
May 29th 2013


28009 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

a lot of death metal is boring

SeaAnemone
May 29th 2013


21429 Comments


decent death metal is such a rare occurrence it's almost not worth hoping for really

and yeah I'll probably check this out at some point
*noted


TheSpirit
Emeritus
May 29th 2013


30304 Comments


about time this band gets some recognition

Tyrael
May 29th 2013


21108 Comments


'decent death metal is such a rare occurrence it's almost not worth hoping for really'

new gorguts this year

TheSpirit
Emeritus
May 29th 2013


30304 Comments


also death metal rules wtf

Atari
Staff Reviewer
May 29th 2013


28009 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

lol ;) name one must-hear death metal release from 2013

Atari
Staff Reviewer
May 29th 2013


28009 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

lmao neither of those are even out yet

EaglesBecomeVultures
May 29th 2013


5572 Comments


will check

wabbit
May 29th 2013


7059 Comments


never stop being u

Atari
Staff Reviewer
May 29th 2013


28009 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

brother is such a killer track



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