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| Sputnikmusic |
 As far as hardcore albums go, Parting the Sea Between Brightness And Me doesn’t pull any stops. In the vein of their contemporaries, its still hardcore with some metallic riffs and vague emo influence thrown in. You’ll hear the same driving riffs punctuated by pretty interludes you’d expect from a band that plays with acts like La Dispute and Comadre, and the same vocal intensity to boot. This is the type of band made for a live show, and the energy they give off throughout the album shows it well.The opening trio of songs are undoubtedly the strongest section of the album, as through the opening cries of the album title in “~“ to the early era Blacklisted inspired “Pathfinder“, into the epic “The Great Repitition” you get to see all the variables of Touche Amore that really work, in particular “The Great Repitition“. A song that is undeniably visceral but still well constructed, Touche Amore take all of the punch of a five minute post-hardcore song and wrap it all up in under two. Thing is, is that necessarily a good thing? The rest of the album suffers from an identity crisis, being that all 20 or so minutes of the album never really get distinguished. The same novelty behind a 5 minute song being condensed to two minutes also makes everything feel sort of homogenous. Where its cool and dynamic at first, by the time the albums over you get the sense that there was too much, too quickly, and something was certainly lost. While it may break away from the hardcore realm, giving these songs more room to grow and expand would have greatly increased the replayability of Parting the Sea beyond the first listen or two. Then again, its still a great record. You can still point out the disconnect of the lyrics (routinely awful, but no worse than any of their peers), but the total package makes sense. The album also finishes strongly with “Amends”, a song that owes more than a little to the ‘post-screamo’ crowd. Touche Amore once again prove that they can make a damn good hardcore album, but the potential for them to make something better oozes throughout the record and continues to hold them back....full text |
| Smnnews |
| Touche Amore will enter the studio in February to begin tracking their new album, Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me , with engineer Ed Rose ( The Appleseed Cast , The Get Up Kids ). The release is due out later this year via Deathwish ....full text |
| Hearwaxmedia |
| Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me, the mouthful, is as much an overstatement as Touché Amoré‘s self-assured school of hardcore knocks. Though overwhelmingly been-there, you’d be hard pressed to find a band that plays done-that with this much bravado. Meeting at the same ends as last year’s confused Lucky Me (from the tragically defunct Killing the Dream), Parting instead feels a little too preconceived and neurotic to really burst forth and lay down some urgent, core-inspired jams. The bare LP doesn’t have a bone of bad intention, but if hardcore has remained admirably blue-collar, then this disc speaks more to a priveleged environment that supports such circular mopiness as opposed to the universal and proactive content of Touché Amoré’s peers. It just doesn’t fit the pouring-their-heart-out-ness of it all. I’m sure the words spilling from that sore throat are as on par personal as most’s, but it feels like worse days already passed than an exorcism in progress. It might be over before you know it, but Touché Amoré’s new disc is a more confident (if less brawny) sprawl than …To the Beat of a Dead Horse (2009). Getting away from explaining all this disappointing affect, TA play refinery emo with a bit of d-beat blood and (every so often) powerviolent guts. The standout is “The Great Repetition”, with a climactic (after 50 seconds no less) leitmotif I can get behind coupled with some superb drumwork. “Sesame” on the other hand is all writer’s block; clumsy lyricism and, save for a too-brief finale, riffs dredged from the shallows of inspiration. It really is a see-saw of a tracklist, as the ensuing number “Wants/Needs” is more in line with the standard their tour/labelmates are holding. As a bluster of forgettably transient emotions, Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me sets out to say a lot and gets mired in mediocre execution and pretense. It’s odd to accuse such a band of lacking an organic side, but there’s a reason the greatly flawed Lucky Me is superior to this....full text |
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