![]() Lyrically, vocalist Jeremy Bolm has never been more on the ball. Moods forever rising and falling, a dark and urgent ebb and flow which ends on the last crashing notes of “Amends”. The album’s cohesion allows a certain blurring to occur, and while this is not welcome in most music, it works nicely for this particular release since it mimics the cluttery rush of emotions that it carries. Adding to this is the album’s ridiculous flow, which makes it seems like they recorded the entire thing in one solid take and simply split the songs up. Take “Sesame” and “Amends” for examples which swim through the air with a disjointed grace not many bands can harness, both balancing somewhere between methodical and raw passion, but steer clear away from sounding overworked or like sheer noise at any point. ![]() Though Touche Amore have added a lot more melody into their music on this offering, it doesn’t detract from how massive this album sounds and it’s impressive what these dudes can do as far as composition considering most of their songs don’t even reach the 2 minute mark. Before you can even blink an eye Touche Amore have already tore through four songs and are half way through the fifth, and much like a speeding car whipping around the corner, you don’t really understand what hit you until suddenly the song is done and you’re a bloody mess on the pavement. Though it boast a whopping 13 songs, the album clocks in at just under 19 minutes. ![]() But honestly, not disappointed is a modest answer to the how awed I was by “Parting The Sea Between Brightness & Me”. Being a huge fan of the band, I can safely say I was more than just a little excited when the band announced they would release a full-length on Deathwish and I somehow knew I wouldn’t be disappointed. ![]() Touche Amore once again prove that they can make a damn good hardcore album, but the potential for them to make something better oozes throughout the record and continues to hold them back.From it’s beautiful, twinkling opening notes I could already tell that I was going to love Touche Amore’s new album. The album also finishes strongly with “Amends”, a song that owes more than a little to the ‘post-screamo’ crowd. You can still point out the disconnect of the lyrics (routinely awful, but no worse than any of their peers), but the total package makes sense. While it may break away from the hardcore realm, giving these songs more room to grow and expand would have greatly increased the replayability of Parting the Sea beyond the first listen or two. Where its cool and dynamic at first, by the time the albums over you get the sense that there was too much, too quickly, and something was certainly lost. The same novelty behind a 5 minute song being condensed to two minutes also makes everything feel sort of homogenous. Thing is, is that necessarily a good thing? The rest of the album suffers from an identity crisis, being that all 20 or so minutes of the album never really get distinguished. A song that is undeniably visceral but still well constructed, Touche Amore take all of the punch of a five minute post-hardcore song and wrap it all up in under two. The opening trio of songs are undoubtedly the strongest section of the album, as through the opening cries of the album title in “~“ to the early era Blacklisted inspired “Pathfinder“, into the epic “The Great Repitition” you get to see all the variables of Touche Amore that really work, in particular “The Great Repitition“. This is the type of band made for a live show, and the energy they give off throughout the album shows it well. ![]() You’ll hear the same driving riffs punctuated by pretty interludes you’d expect from a band that plays with acts like La Dispute and Comadre, and the same vocal intensity to boot. In the vein of their contemporaries, its still hardcore with some metallic riffs and vague emo influence thrown in. Review Summary: There goes Touche Amore, bringing the windmills againĪs far as hardcore albums go, Parting the Sea Between Brightness And Me doesn’t pull any stops. ![]()
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