Senses Fail - Still Searching

Senses Fail - Still Searching

Senses Fail was known as the generic screamo band with its neverending pattern of sing-scream-sing-scream on their previous releases. The seem to have transcended their typical style on their second LP "Still Searching." This album has lyrics based on lead singer's, Buddy Nielsen's, life before getting off anti-depressants. This album is pure emotion, and it really shows as it is much less like their previous albums (OMG, my girlfirend jsut broke my heart) and much more real and relate-able. The CD kicks off with "The Rapture," a powerful yet slower song, with nothing too fancy or distracting: just a solid song. The next song speeds it up a little bit, and has amazingly well written vocals, and studly guitar work. The album keeps up the good work the entire way through. Some of their songs that standout the most are "Sick Or Sane" "Calling All Cars" "All Cowboys Have Daddy Issues." The vocals on this album are more unique than weve seen beofre from this New Jersey band. Everyone in the band sings at one point or another with the new "gang" vocals. The album flows very well, and many new things are tried during this album. "The Priest And The MAtador" has soft percussion parts along with an overall soft feeling. There are also other interesting things that go on during this cd like stoping noises and other things that are only heard on the 100th play of the song. This release is the most solid from Senses Fail so far, and I hope to see more good things coming from this band in the future.

Overall : 8.5/10