Part A - Things start of with tender, layered singing, over gentle guitar chords, only to gradually slide into: Part B - An entropic punk riff, rapid-fired on top of frantic drumming, scaling up until: Part C - A retardedly catchy chorus that would sound as silky as an R'n'B song, if it weren't for guitars 1 and 2, respectively engaging in a slowly pounding breakdown and a ridiculous tapped solo. Allow me to exemplify this by walking you through - not the album - just two songs, "Southern Constellations" and the track to which it is basically an intro "The Boy Who Could Fly". Pierce The Veil are unique for the reason that the already strange mixture of things I mentioned above, are all featured in compositions that are essentially more progressive than anything you'll hear in any genre attributed to this band, while textured with all the tricks of a pop studio-production. Forget such things and try to wrap your head around a band that sounds - here on new album "Selfish Machines" just as on the prior - like no other band on this earth. Forget even what you normally think you like in terms of sounds and styles. Forget about how Pierce The Veil are (mistakingly) lumped together with generic scenecore bands by the boatloads. Forget about what you normally expect to hear from any rock sub-genre. But you need to forget about that for just one second. Main man Victor Fuentes has a child-like croon (think Johnny Whitney meets Claudio Sanchez) that can probably cut through glass, and a fair share of folk will likely be put off by either that, or the introduction of elements both poppy and theatrical into a foundation mixed of punk and post-hardcore. Sure, I get why people aren't taken in immediately. ![]() However, every time I hear the album, I know exactly why it's so good, and I can't for the life of me understand why I'm probably part of a disappearingly small minority that thinks so. ![]() Anyone who read that review have probably considered me a bit bonkers ever since, and meanwhile, I've wondered myself if I gave the grade out of inexperience or youthful over-excitement or some such thing. "A Flair For The Dramatic", the band's first album after changing their name from Before Today, is to date the only record I ever gave a full 10 and in fact the only release out of three or four that I've heard over the last decade, that I felt deserved such a grade. I always knew I'd have some explaining to do when Pierce The Veil got around to releasing a new album. Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fiji, Finland, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of Croatia, Republic of the Congo, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Sweden, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S.Pierce The Veil Selfish Machines Written by: TL
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