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Rating: Nasty and really good, From First To Last release their second album, "Heroine" and manage to once again change the standards of their sound.
In fact, unlike other bands, with this album, From First To Last move away from and abandon overly catchy and commercial melodies, thus distancing themselves from that audience of teenage kids who are making emo a trend (sorry, but I just had to say it).
The sound appears more thought-out almost sacrificing a bit of their anger perhaps to strike with better precision and power. Now let's move on to the album's tracklist: it starts with "Mothersound", a track that has nothing to do with their first album, "Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count" except in the lyrics, where singer Sonny Moore, with his frustrated and almost unique voice, expresses himself at his best. The song ends with several bursts of almost insane electric guitar; then comes "The Latest Plague", in my opinion, one of the best tracks of the album, with its very refined electronic start presenting what will be the album's first single. One of the best tracks is definitely "World War Me": a track of about 3 minutes full of emotional melodies and rhythm changes leading to a truly amazing chorus. The eighth track, "The Leavy" is the catchiest song on the album thanks to its continuous choruses. On the other hand, "Goodbye Waves" will be much appreciated even by calmer listeners with its uninterrupted arpeggio and constant two-part singing that calms the listener at least until a wave of electronic effects breaks in.
The tenth and penultimate track is also very beautiful, "Waltz Moore", a song that in a way tells the biography of singer Sonny Moore and the time he underwent vocal cord surgery. The album then closes with "Heroine", a piece of significant substance, filled with anguished and exasperated words accompanied by an obsessive and heavy rhythm.
In conclusion, the album represents a valid example of a group that possesses skill, technique, and originality and clearly knows what they're doing. The work is in fact not exactly easy listening, especially for those who are used to the band's old sound, but it is definitely one of the best hardcore-emo albums I have ever listened to.
p.s: Sorry if I made the review a bit long, but given the criticism I received for the short length of my other reviews, I decided to make up for it with this wonderful album, listen to it! ;)
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Mothersound (04:02)
Mothersound,
What have they done to you?
You're withering away in the cold
Mothersound,
Once again the world's molested you
And took your soul
I have done this for the sound,
Have done this for the sake of you,
The sake of me;
And you can mark my fucking words:
"We aren't a mock-supposed to be"
We're here to rouse the rabble
Thanks to you,
We get our ace fix
From exposing what you are
And what you've done
You've poisoned the litter
No better time, than now
To change what has been written;
And what has been taught
To those who would not have known
Better
I have done this for the sound,
Have done this for the sake of you,
The sake of me;
And you can mark my fucking words:
"We aren't a mock-supposed to be"
We're here to rouse the rabble
I have done this for the sound,
Have done this for the sake of you,
The sake of me;
And you can mark my fucking words:
"We aren't a mock-supposed to be"
And we're here to rouse the rabble
[x2]
02 The Latest Plague (03:19)
What would you say?
This blood is thick
This blemished face
With a crooked nose
Had a chance to say
Whatever it wanted
Through his brother's throat
Open your note
Would you give a fuck
If all that you heard
Will now devote
Black shadow water
The sound of victory
Blowing up your walls, walls
Fake faces everywhere I see
Fake people looking back at me
Sit down, don't tell me
Don't tell me where I don't belong
Fake faces everywhere I see
Fake people looking back at me
Sit down, don't tell me
Don't tell me where I don't belong
Oh, I heard a sick, sad voice
Oh It was honesty, I turned to her and said
We need to be medicated
I need the prescription
For full sight vision
If you're with me
We'll send the greetings to hell
With the sounds of our voices
Fake faces everywhere I see
Fake people looking back at me
Sit down, don't tell me
Don't tell me where I don't belong
Fake faces everywhere I see
Fake people looking back at me
Sit down,
Don't tell me where I don't belong
I wonder why you're oh so full of shit
You'll be knocked on the floor
So don't you push that precious sweat
Oh you judge his secrecy on shit
You'll be knocked on the floor
SO DON'T YOU PLAY!
Fake faces everywhere I see
Fake people looking back at me
Sit down, don't tell me
Don't tell me where I don't belong
Fake faces everywhere I see
Fake people looking back at me
Sit down, don't tell me
where I don't belong.
04 Afterbirth (03:16)
i was born in a house of glass and silver floors
there were so many people wearing masks
one question and the answers i asks
i was born in a house of glass and silver floors
there were so many people wearing masks
one question and the answers i asks
any where is better than here away from you
make me break me give me away
lie to me you lied so bad give me away
what do you say
just you and i
south on the five
for a couple of days
you take your car
ill take my bag
you take the wheel
i'll gather money for gas
any where is better than here away from you
make me break me give me away
lie to me you lied so bad give me away
woah......
i was born to be given away
make me break me give me away
lie to me you lied so bad give me away
They told me...
A little boy who had been wearing my face
Had told me I was born to be given away
06 Shame Shame (03:36)
If ignorance is bliss
Eradicate my knowledge of my history
Now meaning is left on my own
I look for a long time
Cross back with your kind
But some things are better left alone
Wake up, lonely, hating my life, alone...
Wake up, lonely, hating my life
Shame, shame on me
Come again
Shame, shame on me
Come again
Just bodies, they brightly scratch
They claw like golden souls
Show pictures you wont see, you'll never know
Just bodies, these golden souls
With pictures, wont delete it
Heaved into the ocean to drown with your brothers, your brothers...
Wake up, lonely, hating my life
Their brothers, brothers...
Wake up, lonely, hating my life
Shame, shame on me
Come again
Shame, shame on me
Come again
Come again
Come again
Oh shame, shame on me
Come again
Shame, shame on me
Come again
Shame, shame on me
Come again
Oh shame on me
Come again
08 The Levy (03:49)
No...
Rise, Rise, Rise to fall.
I never care, never care to try until now
To fly home
The distance grows
As the land approaches
Faith at least in the form of gravity
Keeps me low at the ladder
Time to crawl to the salty hill that fills my life
Rise, Rise, Rise to fall.
I never care, never care to try until now
To fly home
The distance grows
As the ground approaches
No...
I lost my chance to fold
I never care, never care to try until now
To fly home
The distance grows
As the ground approaches
Nathan death.to.disco fixed this!
11 Heroine (05:42)
Oh mother is it hard to recognize me now
Oh mother why can't you recognize me now
I said my life time every things fine but i lied
Little boy
Little man
I've lost my name
Heroine, oh Heroine
Where have you been when i needed you?
Lie to me
I lied to you...
I lied, I did
Heroine, oh Heroine
Where have you been when i needed you?
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