CD Review: The Apprehended – “At Arms Length” (Imminence Records)
If you were to look up the word ‘chaos’ in the
dictionary, you very well might find a picture of The Apprehended’s At Arms Length. Well, not really, but
you should. There is a striking sense of urgency woven into every note of this
EP; lead single “Still Flyin’” out and out shreds thanks to intricate, angular
riffs and absolutely soaring hooks, the spastic “Lysie Royalton” is Saosin
meets From Autumn To Ashes, “Seam’s Gorge, WV” manages to somehow be bouncy one
instant and caustic the next, the devastating “Wisteria” is perhaps all the
best of what At Arms Length has to
offer rolled into one explosive track, ‘I’ve been terrified of writing this
song from the moment I heard it / From
the minute the meaning meandered into my mind from on high / At the divine I
deterred it / Delayed it / Belayed that start over / It’s amazing what our
hands are capable of,’ Michael Pitt sings on powerful closer “Quick Hands/Arms
Length,” which might be this EP’s best written track. The fact that the
Apprehended’s At Arms Length is so
many things – honest, passionate, volatile, unpredictable – at only five tracks
long really speaks to just how talented this band really is.
Grade: A-
Go Download: “Wisteria”
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