The Saddest Landscape - You Will Not Survive

Track Listing

01. Declaring War On Nostalgia
02. Torn, Broken, Beautiful
03. Eternity Is Lost On Dying
04. Imperfect But Ours
05. So Lightly Thrown
06. The Shadows I Call Home
07. From All Of Those...

You Will Not Survive is screamo band The Saddest Landscape's effort put out in 2010. The 7 seven song album is full of frantic, chaotic music and gut-wrenching vocals. A short drum intro in the opener, "Declaring War On Nostalgia" gets the album going, it completely takes off from there and does not lose any power. You Will Not Survive has a very somber and almost frustrating feel to it, it can even seem taxing on one's emotions to listen to. The way the songs are put together makes them almost hard to follow, they are relentless, never letting up at all. But even with all of this chaos and power, the record has a very nice polished feel to it, the production is sound, everything has a clearly identifiable presence, and it is all put together very nicely.

The guitars have a crisp feeling to them, but they are still heavily powered and a force to be acknowledged. Mix that in with an out of control rhythm section and the brilliant vocal delivery of the singer, and you have a very strong screamo album.

The lyrics in You Will Not Survive are filled with pain, sorrow, regret, and guilt. Reading them alone is saddening enough, but when you also factor in the singer's absolutely gut-wrenching vocal delivery, the power of the message behind the songs becomes impossible to not feel. It seems that as the album goes on, the clarity of the lyrics for the most part goes down as well, as if the singer become more frustrated with what is going on as the album progresses. There are quite a few stand out chunks of the lyrics that really just resonate with a listen to the record. 

FFO: Pianos Become the Teeth

Recommended Tracks: Declaring War on Nostalgia, Imperfect But Ours

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-Ian Williams