Story Of The Year - Tear Me To Pieces (2023) [FLAC] {SML Records SMLX-0008}
Release Info:
RLSDATE: 2024/01/21 RTLDATE: 2023/03/22
GENRE: Hard Rock SiZE: 268 MB
SOURCE: CD RUNTiME: 33:10
RELEASE: SML Records SMLX-0008
ORiGiN: Japan ENCODER: FLAC 1.43
MATRiX: 1D57103137 IFPI LT030 SMLX-0008 Pressed in Taiwan
with log/cue/nfo/m3u/sfv/300 dpi scans.
Kerrang (dot) com adds. . . .
It feels like the stars have realigned for Story Of The Year. Not only have the
Missouri collective found themselves swept up in the 2000s emo resurgence
that's seen My Chemical Romance and Paramore return straight into arenas and
When We Were Young become the hottest festival ticket on the planet, they've
also been spurred into making the most vital record since 2003 debut Page
Avenue. Twenty years after that landmark became one of the first of its ilk to
shift a million copies, and 10 since they ended their mid-career hiatus, sixth
offering Tear Me To Pieces is the reminder of the beating heart and heaviness,
gripping muscle and melody that fans have been holding on for.
Proceedings starts at a whip, with the strummed intro of the title-track
opening into a surging vocal - "Tear me to pieces and swallow me, 'cause I
can't kill all the anxiety / Tear me to pieces, I’m suffocating and I can't
break free:" - before the first of a cache of crunching riffs crash through.
It's formulaic, sure, but it’s so damn effective you'll find yourself
involuntarily shoving your fringe to one side and digging out the eyeliner.
Real Life is a textbook adolescent anthem full of bubbling-up teenage romance
and the bittersweetness of looming adulthood, with little of the cynicism you'd
expect from players who've long since arrived there. Glow keeps building the
angsty angularity and breathless wonder with remarkably measured punch and
lightness of touch.
And so it goes. Only four of these 11 tracks pass the three-minute mark. None
stray over three-and-a-half. When electronic beats and gleaming synths leak
through on Dead And Gone and WAR, they're in service of the song rather than
any desperately-deployed gimmick. The longing nostalgia of emotional highlight
2005 is almost cloying, but stops short to ring true with the kids they used to
be. By the time the almost operatic Knives out - all gang vocals and banshee
six-strings - subsides into the easy warmth of acoustic closer Use Me, it feels
like stepping out from a half-hour alongside old friends with whom you'll never
really lose touch.
This story is far from over.
Ripper's Notes:
Another "pressed in Taiwan" Japanese release from STOY. Especially odd since
it's on a different label than Wolves. I guess even in Japan indy rock needs
to keep costs low, and manufacturing in Japan is expensive.
This is not my favorite SOTY album. The songs are certainly good, but there are
just too many slow and mid tempo songs for my tastes, from a band like STOY.
Ending on a slow song is never a strong move, in my opinion. I guess everyone
gets old, even screamo bands.
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