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[overlycriticalmusiclover]

Thousand Below, Gone in Your Wake

On first hearing the few singles released for this album I was a little disappointed. None of them really caught me, but I ended up giving the whole album a listen and it was definitely worth it. Overall, the singles are some of the worse songs on the album. “Chemical” is just a boring radio rock track, besides the fact that it doesn’t fit in with the rest of the album’s emotion at all, and the lyrics feel very incomplete. “Alone” and “Disassociate” are much better written, they have some of that awesome Thousand Below heart and emotion, while introducing the listener to the new electronic sound, but they have nothing on tracks like “Fake Smile,” “171 xo,” and the titular “Gone in Your Wake.” The rest of this album is Being as an Ocean-esque in its emotion and electronic vibe, but it does it in a very new and unique Thousand Below way.

The instrumentals are never very complicated, but for a few tracks they have quite a bit to them, even in the piano and acoustic songs which is just fantastic, considering bands usually use soft tracks to take a break. Instead, TB uses the softer songs to build emotion and story and show off their versatility with every sound available from the little guitar licks and riffs to the vocals that just blow you away. The singing on this album has so many sides to it that are so filled to the brim with all the emotions possible it makes it very difficult to listen to this album without wanting to cry at least a little. He tries so many different techniques and styles, plus the occasional harsh vocal, and the synth effects that pop up on his voice sometimes, and that just makes the vocal performance blow everything else out of the water.

The breathtaking vocals and lyrics and atmosphere combined with the fact that the instrumentals do more than just support and do so to only build on everything else make this album a masterpiece—with the exception of the opening track. Heavy or not, Thousand Below has quickly risen to the top of this scene and for good reason.

Overall Album Rating: 9/10

Best Tracks: “Fake Smile”, “Alone (Out of My Head)”, and “171 xo”.