The Receiving End Of Sirens
Between The Heart & The Synapse

THE REVIEW

There are albums and artists that let you see the world of music from their perspective. From top to bottom. Albums capable of making you understand that there is a higher level. As if they were a kind of winged entity able to lift you up, take you high, and show you how everything seems small and trivial from up there...

"Between The Heart & The Synapse" by The Receiving End Of Sirens is one of these albums.

In this case, the winged creature called to show you the world from above is named Casey Crescenzo. Multi-instrumentalist, voice of TREOS, and leader of another project primarily aimed at leaving you speechless: The Dear Hunter.

But let’s talk about "Between The Heart & The Synapse". Here we are not talking about Post-Hardcore, we are talking about experimentation, something never seen before, belonging to a higher category, accessible to few. The album sounds like a perfect mix of various genres on a "Post-Hardcore" basis (quotation marks obligatory since in 2005 it was still a healthy genre where unlikely haircuts, pink skulls, and tons of eyeliner used by men were not yet so common. How many bands have enough creativity to compose pieces like "Dead Men Tell No Tales", "The War Of All Against All", or "This Armistice"? Certainly not many, at least in the genre of TREOS (who are surpassed only by bands like Thrice).

And TREOS are also unlucky, in both of their albums. Yes, because compared to their merits, the attention they have received is like that of a middle-aged man, with a very normal appearance, in a suit and tie, walking on a Manhattan sidewalk during rush hour. Meanwhile, at the release of such albums, people like maichemicolromans jump to the top of sales charts all over the world. And it’s quite frustrating. 

Perhaps in 2005 humanity was not yet ready for "Between The Heart & The Synapse". Perhaps it never will be.

...after the winged creature descends and leaves you where it picked you up before taking you up high, all you can do is look around and remember when you saw the world from above. Or you can be picked up again and start the journey anew.