Great art should speak for itself. There’s a good reason for this. Listening to an artist describe their work can be absolutely excruciating. Either you’re subjected to a sales pitch, or they describe something that bears no resemblance to the finished project or, worse still, they fail to grasp that subject and execution are not mutually exclusive. Story Of The Year go to great lengths to tell you how clever the title of their new album ‘A.R.S.O.N.’ or ‘All Rage Still Only Numb’ is. Except, the only way you’d put those words in that order is if you were trying to make the acronym in the first place. Thankfully, the music is more than capable of making a statement.
There is a lot to like about Story Of The Year’s seventh album. It is, as you might expect, made up of big, fun rock songs with an air of pop punk and a whiff of hardcore. If you’ve enjoyed their previous work, there’s a good chance you’ll enjoy the ten songs collected here. ‘A.R.S.O.N.’ is Story Of The Year, but not by…
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