#2474 LVL UP - Return to Love

Man this starts off strong, Hidden Driver's overblown strums and desperate vocals out for blood like some great lost Neutral Milk Hotel song. The rest of the album is fine, full of heavy jangle and crunch, but it's on autopilot, a shadow of that first burst of energy, never reaching for / finding those same heights again. I've never seen these guys live, but I sense some deep-down energy that the album might be failing to harness 3.5/5