No doubt the best material Outline in Color have ever produced. Right away, from the opening track "Not Enough", the band completely sells you on their sporadic style; they draw the fine-line between 'metalcore' and 'post-hardcore'. "Vultures", the best song on the record, utilizes a really cool song structure with an infectious chorus. Other highlights like "Smother Me" deliver the hard-hitting breakdowns that genre fans will enjoy, coupled with songs like "Barely Human" which evoke the 'ballad' portion of a standard LP. The band even tries to be experimental with "The Stakes", which features ambitious/pointless rapping. Truthfully, the only thing that bothers me about this album is the closer track "Dissolve" - which besides being the weakest song from the album, doesn't feel like a 'closing song' that records like this should have. It almost feels as if they're saving a few tracks for the inevitable "Deluxe Edition", but those have kind of died out in recent years.
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