This is probably my favorite album of all time. It's nothing groundbreaking, they didn't change the face of music with it, but to me everything about it is perfect. Packed to the gills with wordplay and a creative concept, Brendan Brown and Casey Crescenzo wrote such great lyrics to go along with the sequencing laden post hardcore music they perfected. I've listened to this album well over a hundred times, and for the first 75 or so I always took everything in the songs literally, but as time passed little hints and hidden meanings would always present themselves and give me a whole new appreciation for everything contained within. I've never actually seen Brendan and Casey explain all of the song's meanings, but one that will be with me for the rest of my life is the recurring lines throughout the album "This is the last night in my body/Somehow, for now, this skin will have to do." The latter line being sung either after or simultaneously with the first. But I always ignored the second line, and focused solely on the first. Telling myself I would eventually change from the rut I was stuck in, I would always repeat in my head "This is the last night in my body" before going to bed. Then I'd wake up the next day and repeat my same routine. One late night it all clicked for me, I heard the second line "Somehow, for now, this skin will have to do" and I realized, you can't change who you are over night. Be content with what you are and make the best of it. I know the whole "This album changed my life" thing is cliche and hard to believe, but over the past 2 years, 9 months and 18 days (Yeah, that's right I know the exact day I bought the album) this album has helped make me a better person more than anything else I've ever had.
Key Tracks: The Rival Cycle, This Armistice, Epilogue
Bonus: Maybe my favorite moment in music history, Casey returning for The Red Eye of Soromon Farewell Show.
The cannon's calling our name
I hear her singing to me
In morse code,
"This is our revolution!
To arms! To arms!
This is our revolution!"
We are the corps of corpses
We are up in arms and armed
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