While it's clear that it's a debut album, I find this album really quite precious. 'Yeah Boy And Doll Face' was the first Pierce The Veil song I ever heard, and it's one of my favourites off the album, but 'Drella' absolutely takes the cake for me. Beautiful vocals from Vic Fuentes, to note. Really love this album even if it isn't their best!
My ratings for each song:
Chemical Kids and Mechanical Brides - 70
Currents Convulsive - 78
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'A Kiss For The Whole World' is... not a good album, to say the least. The majority of the songs sounded like a generic British indie band without any sort of direction nor creativity. The instrumentals had next to no connection or harmony with the vocals, and they were all incredibly tame for an album labelled as "post-hardcore" and "post-punk;" very far past each of these genres, it seems. The lyrics did absolutely nothing for me, and only very few of the songs were ... read more
I've come into this band as someone who'd never heard of them before listening to this, since I randomised the site and chose whatever came up first. Oh boy, did I hit a goldmine.
[TLDR; I like this album. This is quite a long review, my bad.]
This album is stunning; the intro song, 'The Law of Asbestos' opened me up to the sheer instrumental talent that Ashenspire would prove they possess as I continued to listen. With the fantastic violin, emotionally-raw vocals and powerful lyrics, I can ... read more