Album Rating: 4.0

I think Just Got Back is a tad better but man this one rules hard too.

Album Rating: 4.5

At one time I felt the same way. JUST GOT BACK was more 'immediate' for me—the way the opener gets 'right to business' and the catchy synths in "Blah Blah Blahs" etc. And for a while I was sort of put-off of the small interludes on the debut. Over the years, though, it has continued to grow in my esteem. The interludes clicked and suddenly the album would feel weird without them (seriously, I cannot listen to "Through Hallways" without hearing "Waiting for Your Return" first). The long and drawn out first-section of the opening track ("I See It Too") felt less and less like a drag and more like the tense and anxious build-up it was supposed to be, leading into that godly riff. "Born Again" has become an absolute favorite, too, and the moment right around 7:16 with the clean guitar coming in after the soft bridge, the rolling snare, the interrupted synths—"IIIIIIIIIIII CAN'T DOOOOOO THIS, ANYMOO-OO-OOOORE" might be my single favorite instance in all of emo.



Keep this one in rotations, Hawks (I'm sure you will). And I guarantee it'll grown on you, too. Maybe not enough to eclipse JUST GOT BACK, but this is one that continues to reveal itself with each subsequent listen.

Album Rating: 4.0

Definitelty gonna keep jamming bro. I almost 4.5'd but I need more time I think. I will say that the way they make a 10 minute song sound like 2 minutes is very impressive. Vocals are so killer too. Band just rules insanely hard.

Album Rating: 4.5

As if you weren't adored you leave this place, my life, this earth.

You took my eyes out to speak with me and cut open my chest again, no not the gurney.

I want to know, I want to see that man bleeding from his hands,

Towers above me, scream "can you not, can you just not, oh, can you please just not hear me".

Inflammation! Replace Omega 6 with some Omega 3's,

My dying dignity with vital circuitry that lets the body disregard surroundings' never-ending sound.

Resounding ignorance fills these rooms, air is replaced with tall tales, their shrinking potency.

I felt as if i were a child that night I watched her dance,

Sitting on your basement floor,

Screaming I don't want to go when the truth is that I want to know if I could even handle it

Finding myself screaming if only for a minute,

Leave home.