Album title:
Still Searching
Artist:
Senses Fail
Label:
Vagrant
You've heard Senses Fail a million times. Maybe the record cover said Fightstar or From First To Last but you've heard Senses Fail before. 'Still Searching' lurches between pop punk and emo in a way that would make My Chemical Romance ashamed. The album is three and a half songs old before you realise you're not still listening to its opening track anymore. It just sounds like Bullet For My Valentine. Only worse. You need this album like you need a six-inch rectal prolapse. It tries to be extreme. It fails. It tries to be moody. It fails. It's just a complacent mess. It may surprise some, but there are good bands in the post-hardcore genre. Senses Fail are not one of them. [Neil Ferguson]