Love Lost But Not Forgotten - Upon the Right, I Saw a New Misery (2002)

1. Intro
2. Typical Fashion
3. Headless, Sleeping Soundly
4. Calm And Secure
5. It Never Happened
6. Perfectly Fucked
7. What's Left Of "Shitlife"
8. Happy To Be Alive
9. Nobody's Watching Department 23
   
   Note*: The person who titled the tracks on the songs in the link miss titled most of them. Above is the correct order the song names should be in.
   
   Passionate is a word commonly used to describe screamo (Especially since Doc 8 caught on with alot of people). For the most part this is true. But few bands can manage being passionate without sacrificing what some people call "Not sounding like shit". Love Lost But Not Forgotten are one of the few.
   
   "...was a screamo/emo violence group formed in 1997 in suburban St. Peters, Missouri composed of ex-members of Bend Over End, and The Paxidils. Known for their violence onstage and unique vocals provided by a lineup that sometimes included two main vocalists (Prater and Schmidt both being solo vocals for the band at one time through the bands career.) and a trio of guitarists (Fogelbach and Emerick also surviving the lifetime of the band,)." <Wikipedia
   
   I'm just gonna flat out say it. This is probably one of the greatest screamo albums. Every track is interesting and well-played. The vocals are a top-notch level of 'Grating-As-Fuck'. The guitarists pull off octave chord spam with maximum efficiency and have quiet sections that set the caustic, paranoid, terrifying, and sometimes hopeful mood of the whole album. The drums and bass are no slacks either though. The drums are not only well-played, they are fantastically placed and paced. The bass sections are just plain cool and fairly original (when not backing the guitars). But I think the best part of the album are the lyrics. They are usually melancholic but are also simplistic, unpretentious and sometimes even darkly humorous.
   
   Recommended tracks: It Never Happened, Happy To Be Alive,  Nobody's Watching Department 23
   
   FFO: Good
   
   Even when I'm passionate it's unimpressive.
   
   -Dylanger