The musicianship is stellar, the vocals draw you in, and you can’t avoid bouncing your head and wishing you could hit the high notes so you could sing along.
Successfully meshing skate punk and NYC hardcore into a powerful, energetic collaboration, Reaching Forward make it look easy on their sophomore full-length.
As you can probably guess, AFI is a big influence here. But I’ll give the Devil his due: If you can get past the silliness, some of these songs aren’t bad.
No. No. No. I get enough of this ham-fisted techno crap in car commercials. Why would I want to listen to the 13 year career span of these dance-floor hacks?