Emotionalpunk.com
Media Review
Music Quality: 10.0
Production: 10.0
Originality: 9.0
Tracklisting
2. Translating The Name
3. 3rd Measurement In C
4. Lost Symphonies
5. They Perched On Their Stilts, Pointing And Daring Me To Break Custom
Saosin's hyped and awaited EP came out June 17, and you need to buy it. Saosin is a musically gifted band, with unbelievable intensity and energy, and this EP does nothing but pleases me.
Seven Years is easily the key track on the disc, and opens with furious bounciness and the usual pleasable clean riff combined with ground shattering chords that blast in loudly. With an insane dropoff and just constant chords, the Coheed-esque vocals fit in perfectly with the style: not conventional. Lots of screaming and singing combinations, but mostly singing, which makes for a perfectly melodic sound. The band's energy and intensity is really unmatched, however, as can be noticed with the huge buildup to the insane finale, double bass drum and loud guitars raging off end. Translating The Name continues the stylistic development the band shows in Seven Years, and as usual lots of punchy bass and guitars remind the listener of a much harder Armor For Sleep with Coheed and Cambria's super-high vocal style.
This EP is just filled with solid, loud, and blasting guitars, and an intensity that is really unmatched in today's scene. And while Saosin uses the currently popular formula (hardcore meets emo, in three words), they have the energy, talent, and intensity to break them away from the ordinary.