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The Amity Affliction are a five piece post-hardcore
band from Australia and they have recently signed
to Roadrunner Records which has prompted themselves
and Roadrunner Records to re-release their second
studio album ‘Youngbloods’ which was
originally released back in 2010, with a couple
of extra tracks to keep the fans happy and ultimately
to cement their newly found relationship with Roadrunner
Records.
‘Youngbloods’ is such a strong sounding
album which The Amity Affliction have worked incredibly
hard on and crammed pretty much everything into
from screamo vocals to more clean cut vocals,
guitar riffs which send waves across the airwaves,
drum beats which are loud and constant and not
to forget the ball busting baselines which come
in with a major thud.
The album opens with ‘I Hate Hartley’,
which starts off with cinematic soundscapes and
seconds later Joel Birch comes in with his fast
and ferocious vocals whilst the rest of the band
knock out some hectic instrumental work which
sounds similar to a machine gun going off, as
the song progresses Ahren Stringer comes in with
his clean cut sing-a-long vocals and things get
mixed up with Birch and Stringer taking it in
turns taking centre stage with their unique sounding
vocals.
The main single to be taken from the album is
the title track ‘Youngbloods’ and
it is one hell of an anthem, the guitar work is
extremely chunky and technical whilst Stringer
gives the track a catchy edge with his clean cut
vocals whilst Birch brings things back down to
their hardcore roots with his more sing-a-long
vocals.
As the album progresses each and every song works
from the same foundations and sounds of raw meets
melodic with tracks such as ‘Fire Or Knife’,
‘Olde English 800’ and ‘RIP
Forghorn’ leading the pack with excellence.
Both ‘Fire Or Knife’ and ‘Olde
English 800’ opens really fast loud and
raw and within seconds Stringer comes in knocking
the tracks down a couple of beats with his melodic
vocals before things pick up once again.
The great thing with The Amity Affliction is
each and every member of the band is clearly an
excellent musician and each person’s work
is as important as the next as there is so much
going on throughout each track on the album you
would instantly notice if one of the members slacked
off or left and it is hard to pick a favourite
vocalist out of Joel Birch and Ahren Stringer
as they both have major positive effect on the
band.
If you are into post-hardcore music and did not
pick up ‘Youngbloods’ when it was
originally released then I urge you to go out
and buy it this time around as the album is fantastic
even if it is a good 18months old now and if there
workaholic nature is anything to go by it won’t
be long until album number 3 is unleashed onto
us.
5/5
Review by Trigger |
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Joel Birch
Ahren Stringer
Trad Nathan
Troy Brady
Ryan Burt |
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1. I Hate Hartley
2. Anchors
3. H.M.A.S Lookback
4. Fire Or Knife
5. Youngbloods
6. Dr. Thunder
7. Olde English 800
8. No Sleep 'Til Brisbane
9. R.I.P Foghorn
10. Fuck The Yankees |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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