 | Waifle The Music Stops, The Man Dies
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| 4.0 excellent | Alabaster Jones | August 3rd 17 |
In the preamble for this record, Waifle (a portmanteau of "waif" meaning "someone with no home" and "waffle") expresses the sentiment that the terms "emo" and "hardcore" had lost their true meanings and that they were a group dedicated to those meanings: passion, emotions, and heart. The Music Stops, The Man Dies is actually a pretty great statement musically, with the inherent sloppiness and somewhat amateurish nature of the songs giving them a ton of personality. Thinly-produced-yet-powerful screamo dirges switch back and forth between surprisingly beautiful acoustic passages that are all emotion with no cheese, and despite only being about twenty-seven minutes long, there's a lot of variety involved here that similar albums don't express as efficiently. Many know Waifle for the live album they did with the ineffable pageninetynine, but it's interesting: Waifle was doing this stuff even before them. Not as well, as thinks would eventually shake out, but you can't help but feel that the people of pageninetynine respected Waifle very much. Needless to say, it's for a good reason.
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| 3.5 great | bmelt CONTRIBUTOR | November 7th 17 |
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