mauropso

Biased review since it's one of my favorite screamo bands, it's definitely influential (same font on fftl's dear diary, and i'm sure these guys knew) to later post-hardcore bands, has huge moments where you could almost fit an 80s guitar solo and people wouldn't bat an eye, sounds similar to other 90s screamo records yet there's this rushed feeling (which might be powered by the weird ass time signatures, switching from 4 4 to 3 4 all the time) other bands of this ... read more

Lacks the energy of later albums? Are we even listening to the same album? For me they never reached these heights even if I consider Dear Diary and Heroine good albums, this is the exact point where 90s post-hardcore and screamo had fully transformed into the 2000s sound, and you can even hear (I swear) some Yaphet Kotto riffs thrown in here.

This one has weirder sounds and has more rock songs thrown in, couldn't have bankrupted it's label so I see why it's not considered a cult classic nowadays. No More Sorry and Lose My Breath are fantastic anxious-ridden songs.

The album itself is one long depressing and existencial waltz about the things that make us human, it's philosophical and grim as much as the rest of the catalog, but this one sounds like it would've received some mainstream acclaim.
Dark yet strangely uplifting, I still can't get over how it 'felt' the first time I discovered this album, before the memes and the hype online nerds like me gave it, like an artifact lost in time.
6 8 permeates this album, which adds to ... read more