"There are some bands that play with your heart and soul like if you're a toy doll that can't offer resistance to anything. "Slow, deliberate and darkly passionate." - Punk Planet Brandtson can bash out a righteous wall of noise." - Magnet "A maelstrom of dense, tight emo with fire and real darkness. Brandtson are gonna be THE biggest." - Fracture "Angry, melodic and powerful although they occasionally do let up. Mighty and infectious.the business." - Kerrang "Damn near untouchable rock and roll blasted out from battered amps. "Blindspot" continues the favorable impression with a six-eight groove seemingly borrowed from Weezer's depressed twin brother. The album's first track 'Round 13' commands the listener's attention with an attack slightly reminiscent of early Social Distortion. Song titles like 'Nineveh' and 'Glutton For Tragedy' show that the band also possesses a poetic sensibility. "Letterbox features all the hallmarks of the emo sound: the approach is moody, the dynamics extreme, and the lyrics painfully honest. Unreleased song "Holly Park" on Emo Diaries 2. Somber yet spirited with introspective lyrics, Brandtson is thoughtful, inspirational and mature beyond their years. Thick, driving, emotional guitars that are sometimes pretty, sometimes surging, sometimes chaotic. And they proudly wear their post-hardcore and dare we say pop influences like a badge of honor. And the mail will show up tomorrow.Dark, melodic and hauntingly beautiful, Brandtson explodes with shredding intensity on Letterbox. And still, we act suprised that that the ongoing result of the culmination of billions of people interacting with each other doesn't fit our own selfishly tailored view of what will happen tomorrow.ĭespite our confusion, life goes on. The future keeps confusing us, it acts like the ongoing culmination of the not so random sequence of events that it is going to. The song is about the fact that we all have lived our own crazy lives, and have seen the things that we have seen - we individually think we know what is really going on - we expect life going forward to congeal with what we think the future will be.īut of course, it doesn't. We know and understand what has happened, yet the future does not seem to respect our predictions. The "sparrow" is time gone past (in the fourth dimensional, shouldn't I know better than that based on the things that I have learned, seen and done timeline that we all exist upon - and, as such, shouldn't I know better than all of you). General CommentThe "letterbox" is the future. It's one of the ironies of bad relationships. ![]() If they knew, change might have been possible and the breakup might not have been necessary. This is a reference to the fact that when one of the parties to relationships like this finally wakes up, with the resultant breakup, they have to reflect tragically on the fact that there are certain things they'll never be able to resolve in a satisfactory way notably, why the other partner was so screwed up in the first place. The other "giveaway" is that last line of the A section about "And I'll never never.". For example, "take a bite out of my spine," addresses that ugly situation where one person in a bad relationship permits the other to use shabby little expedients (e.g., playing on inner doubts, information withholding, lying) to rob them of fundamental self-worth. Certain other phrases are dead giveaways. The "letterbox" is merely a hint of that new separateness/singularity for a while anyway, our interface with the world-our new "intimacy"-is the postal system. ![]() So actually, it's not insight, it's 20/20 hindsight. It does this so well, it's inconguous with the fact that someone with this much insight should remain in such a screwed up relationship hence, the relationship is no more. General CommentIn a nutshell, this song puts all the fine points on the nature of certain types of dysfunctional relationships.
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