Sometimes when I listen to music, I forget to do the most crucial thing: connect, or at least try to connect, with what is being heard. If I can't connect with it even though I tried, that's not my fault. But when I forget that I listen to music for one thing and one thing only and that is to feel something, I do the artist, and myself, a disservice. Basically, it's one thing to not understand it, but another thing to not even try. SNSRY DPRVTN isn't meant for passive listening. It requires attention, because the sounds coming through from many subgenres of punk and rock are as intricately detailed as they are pleasing to hear. An eighty-minute-plus behemoth that paces itself incredibly well and flows almost just as good, with lyrics that I wish I could've wrote when I was in high school, just cannot be appreciated without attentive listening. It longs to connect with the listener, as youthful and intimate as it is, and it will. You just have to let it.
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