Hundredth's latest album dropped a mere week ago, and having had my pre-order in for months I was pretty damn stoked when it managed to arrive here all the way from USA on release day. I've managed to let the initial fanboy excitement level out, so here goes.
The album starts off incredibly right off the bat with "Let Go" & " Weathered Town", and ends the same way with a powerful cover of Johnny Cash's rendition of "Hurt" (originally by Nine Inch Nails). The stuff in-between is, well, somewhat up & down... half seems to be an onslaught of moving, melodic epic... and the other half is a blur of fairly run-of-the-mill angsty hardcore/punk. The album definitely has a respectable helping of memorable moments, but they seem to be held together by simpler passages that become overshadowed or forgotten. The good bits are just TOO good.
Don't get me wrong, it's a masterpiece of a release and certainly a highlight of the year. It's just a week on and about 10 plays through, I find myself chanting or bopping along to some moments, and reacting to others as though I haven't heard them at all yet. It's definitely a release that feels more refined than the last, and maybe with time as I start to remember the entire album I'll come to appreciate it more.
Not a perfect release, but it's still a hell of a release nonetheless... and if the band continue this momentum and fulfill their potential there'll be even greater things to come.
Let GoReleased: 2011
Country: USA
Genre: Melodic Hardcore
"Remain & Sustain" music video
"Live Today"
FFO: Counterparts, Your Demise, The Ghost Inside
