Alexisonfire

I have been listening to this band for soooo long. I was a fan from their get go and this really shows my age. Both me and them are from Canada and we were both from Ontario so it was like a local band who was blowing up and becoming the biggest thing. It was very exciting. I remember seeing them on tour during the promotion of this album and they had Billy Talent open for them in a tiny venue fitting probably only like 50-100 people. My friend and I met Wade, guitar & vocals, and Chris, bass, and we bought merch hoodies which we both wore basically everyday after day. It was good times. Being super into music in highschool is such a good time. 

Alexisonfire's debut album is a wild adventure. There's screeching and three vocalists and tons of distortion and reverb and delay. Nothing quite sounds like this record. It's definitely of its time, yet also very timeless somehow. This is an album that I can never tire of. Honestly there's not much more to say here either than a bit of history. 

Some of you may know City and Colour. Well our boy Dallas got his start here. You can hear him singing background vocals in every song on this album though he doesn't quite have his singing chops yet. You can hear it start to develop though. Well the band wanted to just play crazy noise basically and they managed to do that while also crafting some pretty intricate tracks along the way. Pulmonary Archery is genuinly a good and catchy song which has the screaching as well as some great singing from both Dallas and Wade. Polaroids of Polar Bears has a long intro that is covered in reverb and delay while the two guitar players play along very intricately together. The song then blasts into their signature sound afterwards. Of course we can't forget to mention the opening track 44 Caliber Love Letter. Like, what does that even mean? Who cares, it's awesome. It all builds up to the climax where all of the instruments stop and George (harsh vocals) says in almost spoken word "This is a 44 caliber love letter straight from the heart" and then the whole band crashes back in to finish the song. Fucking art!

This is an album I'm always going to love. I know this incoherent rambling probably didn't make any sense and that's great. I was basically just mirroring this album. Check this out if you haven't yet. If this is too much chaos then definitely check out their later works, it features more Dallas and more straight forward songs. 

9/10