On their first record in five years and while on break from Blink 182, Matt Skiba and company have returned with an album of atmospheric gloom and punk. The album\u2019s title track is a fun ride and reminds me of early 2000s punk I heard in my friends\u2019 cars. \u201cBlackbird\u201d is an amazing track, one that demands infinite repeats; it\u2019s just an amazing punk song, and I haven\u2019t had too many of those this year<\/p>\n
\u201cDemon And Division\u201d is a blazing number, and while it doesn\u2019t grab me as much as \u201cBlackbird,\u201d it\u2019s still a good track. This band\u2019s energy can\u2019t be contained or denied. They manage to keep it going for an entire album when most bands nowadays wear out after four songs. \u201cWorn So Thin\u201d would sound great on the radio and it almost comes across like an anthem for this day and age. \u201cI Can\u2019t Believe\u201d takes me back to the Trio of my high school years, poppy and punky at the same time, while also very melodic and almost brutal.<\/p>\n
\u201cGoodbye Fire Island\u201d is a great track, showcasing Skiba\u2019s songwriting and the band\u2019s ability to slow things down but not lose their integrity or their grit in the process. \u201cStay\u201d follows in the same path and is more of a pop song than anything else here, and it ain\u2019t bad at all. One thing that separates this band from the rest of the gloom punk pack is the good quality songwriting all throughout the record. That really helps set up a steady stream of memorable tunes that will stay in one\u2019s head long after the disc is over. Even the closing track \u201cKrystalline,\u201d a semi-acoustic jam that\u2019s a really moody, atmospheric way to close things out, is a great song. <\/p>\n
All in all, this is a great release and an unexpected treat, and probably one of the better punk records I\u2019ve heard in quite some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":33601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[9220],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-45422","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-alkaline-trio","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45422"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}