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║ ARTiST......: Stick To Your Guns ║
║ ALBUM.......: Disobedient ║
║ TYPE........: Digipack ║
║ LABEL.......: Sumerian ║
║ GENRE.......: Hardcore ║
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║ LANGUAGE....: English SOURCE.....: Compact Disk Digital Audio ║
║ RiP.DATE....: 02-10-2015 GRABBER....: EAC 1.0beta3 (Secure Mode) ║
║ RETAiL.DATE.: 02-10-2015 ENCODER....: LAME3.98.4 with preset -V0 ║
║ CATALOG.....: SUM554 QUALiTY....: 266kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo ║
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║ URL.........: http://goo.gl/iN8XQa ║
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║ Orange County's Stick to Your Guns have come a long way since the ║
║ youthful snarling of 2007's For What It's Worth, but at heart they ║
║ remain the same. Some may find their incessant preaching distracting ║
║ and distasteful, but the band somehow manages to preach in a modest ║
║ and genuine way that has won them a throng of diehard fans, such as ║
║ myself. With that being said, there's an undoubted bias from which I ║
║ listen to this album, as the band has a special place in my heart. ║
║ Still, the maturity and songwriting is indubitably fantastic this ║
║ time around, and the message remains just as profound. ║
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║ Disobedient continues right from where 2012's Diamond left off. More ║
║ Ghandi quotes referring to soul-searching and finding the inner ║
║ strength and peace within oneself, and more aggressive, melodic, ║
║ anthemic passion. It Starts With Me grows from frontman Jesse ║
║ Barnett's melodic clean vocals (which have much improved, though it ║
║ remains to be seen whether he can keep up in his live performance) ║
║ into some gang vocals that lead into the first Ghandi passage, ║
║ calling on listeners to take responsibility for the suffering in the ║
║ world. The track pulls you right off your chair and onto your feet. ║
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║ While the next three tracks, and the three tracks released prior to ║
║ the album, are good, they are not among the strongest on the album. ║
║ But one can't help feeling turned on by Barnett screaming "*** the ║
║ message" at the end of RMA. Just another instance of Stick to Your ║
║ Guns doing something just a little bit different from everyone else, ║
║ as its something not usually heard of when it comes to the Civil ║
║ Rights Movement. ║
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║ The album hits its most passionate point in its middle section with ║
║ To Whom It May Concern, The Crown, and I Choose No One. To Whom It ║
║ May Concern hits hard and emotional, ending with a soft reprise of ║
║ It Starts With Me, and it is maybe my favorite track on the album. ║
║ The Crown follows and, in my opinion, should've been the record's ║
║ single. Its catchy and powerful, and when Barnett screams "I ║
║ understand the feeling of thinking you've failed me, and I ║
║ understand the blaming and the pain that it brings" followed by some ║
║ of the album's most adrenalized though not irregular guitar work. ║
║ And I Choose No One brings the heaviest the album has to offer, ║
║ beginning with a sample for the Great Dictator and ending with ║
║ Terror's Scott Vogel bringing the track to a crushing close. ║
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║ The album closes in the captivating "Left You Behind" which shows ║
║ Stick to Your Guns as the softest they've ever been. But the track ║
║ really, really works, telling the story of a young man leaving home ║
║ trying to find his way. ║
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║ Stick to Your Guns may have lost a small amount of the aggression ║
║ conjured in their prior releases, but really, they've stepped ║
║ perhaps one step back for several steps forward, particularly as far ║
║ as melody goes. The albumÆs low point, Nothing You Can do to me, as ║
║ well as the far better The War Inside, demonstrate STYG taking a ║
║ couple steps closer to their generic contemporaries, but they still ║
║ have something no one else has. And thatÆs an admirable heartfelt ║
║ message, on top of engaging melodic hardcore. ║
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║ 01 It Starts With Me 2:31 ║
║ 02 What Choice Did You give Us? 2:55 ║
║ 03 Nobody 3:05 ║
║ 04 RMA (Revolutionary Mental Attitude) 1:28 ║
║ 05 Nothing You Can Do To Me 2:22 ║
║ 06 To Whom It May Concern 3:17 ║
║ 07 The Crown 3:30 ║
║ 08 I Choose Nothing 3:15 ║
║ 09 Disobedient 1:04 ║
║ 10 The War Inside 3:02 ║
║ 11 Left You Behind 4:29 ║
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║ TOTAL SiZE.: 11 Files/62.80MB/30:58 min ║
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