While Evan Blue's sophomore album is by no means extraordinary, it still shows a natural progression of both musicianship and maturity. Demonstrated on this album is an improved sense of melody, though with some slight flaws. It's also shown Evans Blue try on new paths with their music, with songs like Q floating dangerously close to pop, and other songs like Painted, showing a new depth to their sound previously not explored before, with haunting instrumentals, and even some mature and melodic guitar solos. The vocals are still overbearing, but less overbearing than their debut album, and really, that's the main complaint that I have on this album. The guitars have shown a lot of improvement, no longer mainly limited to power chords as seen on their debut. The fact remains that The Pursuit Begins When This Portrayal Of Life Ends does not suffer from the sophomore curse.
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