The band’s refinement continues, and while the extension of the passionate, emotional metalcore of their early releases is still very much a part of their composition, there is so much more agility in the vocal department with album highlights “Better Written Villain” and “Funeral Arrangements” showcasing skills akin to (dare I say) Jamie’s Elsewhere. While the lyrics are still somewhat indiscernible, like reading a Thomas Pynchon novel where all this text looks like english prose, but just feels so overwhelmingly overwritten, frontman Jack Murray spreads himself farther and wider than ever before, alongside a band that allows his expression to flourish with consistent strums and traditional bass/drum verses to present the cadence we’ve come to expect. 156/Silence have definitely outdone themselves and delivered a super dense record with tons of songs to cement themselves as more than another metallic hardcore band and elevate themselves somewhere new.
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