Senses Fail- Let It Enfold You

It’s funny how time can change your opinion of an album. When this album was released in 2004 (my Junior Year of High School), I didn’t stop listening to it for at least a few months. I guess that shows my lack of musical knowledge at the time. Then again, I was looking for an album I could blast out of my car speakers that was loud and had screaming. Let It Enfold You fit that bill, so I figure I got what I was looking for. In terms of the “screamo” genre (if you can call it a genre), the album is mediocre at best. If you’re looking for screaming, loud guitars, and pointless lyrics…then look no further.

Give credit where it’s due. Senses Fail came about in the early part of the previous decade and was able to ride the coat-tails of the screamo movement by creating an album that pandered to the “Hot Topic” crowd. Like I said, I once enjoyed this album…sadly. To say that the studio enhanced the band’s music/Buddy Nielsen’s vocals would be the understatement of the year. Go on Youtube and find a live cut of theirs from this era. I saw them live and let me tell you…these guys were among the worst live bands I have ever seen.

There was one good point from this album however. I don’t want to say all negative things; at least the song titles are inventive. The best cut on the album is Rum is for Drinking, not for Burning. It’s less than three minutes long and is a pretty good song to be honest. It is actually one of the top 10 screamo songs I have heard. Still, other than that one song, the album is very forgettable. You can tell the album was produced to the point where all the life that was present in the music was sucked out of it. When I was 18 years old, this album would get a solid B. Oh, how times have changed.

Grade---D-