The compilation spans a good amount of the bands progression showcasing earlier works which had bedroom mixing and felt round as a plum as vocals fought to make any imprint... To later works which had full encompassing hardcore passages that erupted into extreme Skramz gold. For as sappy as some of the lyrics of the over the top emo can be at times, most of this album aged pretty well. It's rawness is it's key trait.

squeejie

like the phoenix, the fellow emo rises from the cigarette ash reborn

trucke

i think the reasons this isnt higher is because it should probably be split into multiple albums, this does NOT need to be 1hr+ long, some of the songs feel a bit too samey and i feel i can tell most of this isnt an album and just a collection hehe. overall tho i really liked this and especially liked "The Sweetness and the Light" and "Some Natures Catch No Plagues".

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