★★★★★
Having spent much of their short career being categorized alongside the likes of Title Fight and the recent "Wave" of neo-post-hardcore, Balance & Composure turn out to be a pretty complimentary face for alt-rock in 2013. All thoughts of the five piece as being your average Warped Tour friendly band are crushed with just one listen to the arena-baiting rock of TTWTWM...
- www.state.ie
2013-10-12
★★★★★
One of the most interesting talking points about Balance and Composure's latest album is that it brings the listener to a memorable point of their lives. Maybe I'm an anomaly for having a homogeneous blur of a childhood-- most of my peers probably have fond musical memories as kids, of blasting Nirvana in the car and hearing Smashing Pumpkins on the radio. But the difference is that those styles never particularly appealed to me...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2013-09-22
★★★★★
Balance And Composure - The Things We Think We're Missing
How do you top something like 'Separation'? Like this. You top it like this.
Posted Wednesday, 18 September 2013 in ,
Rating: 9 Growing up can be tricky for a band like Pennsylvania's Balance And Composure . With storming debut record 'Separation' fuelled by the sort of adolescent kindle that burns away as quickly as it ignites, their second effort was always unlikely to be a spiky affair...
- www.rocksound.tv
2013-09-19
★★★★★
BALANCE AND COMPOSURE - The Things We Think We're Missing
Album:
The Things We Think We're Missing
Artist: Balance And Composure
Label: No Sleep Records
Release Date: September 10, 2013
www.NoSleepRecords.com
BY JOHN B. MOORE
Emo was not always a bad word...
- blurtonline.com
2013-09-19
★★★★★
Despite a recent influx of think-pieces on what it means to be "alternative rock" in 2013, you always know an alternative rock album when you hear one: too loud, angsty, or emo to be Top 40, and still laden with enough hooks not to be experimental, sounding great blaring on the car radio, windows down...
- www.musicomh.com
2013-09-18
★★★★★
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Balance and Composure - The Things We Think We're...Balance and Composure - The Things We Think We're MissingRelease Date: September 10, 2013
Record Label: No Sleep Records
When you hear a record like this and you're going to write about it, you really want to open up with some grandiose, sweeping statement that sets the tone for the next few paragraphs...
- www.absolutepunk.net
2013-09-14
★★★★★
If you're reading this, chances are good that at some point in your life, there was an album that completely consumed you. To you, this album was a perfect allegory of an imperfect time, a time when you were wrong, misled, confused or disappointed, either by your own actions or the actions of others...
- www.punknews.org
2013-09-20
★★★★★
If you've resolved every resentment you've carried from high school, are in a conflict-free relationship with your significant other, and have not taken a minute in the past few months trying to figure out in literal terms what the fuck is wrong with you people?, then by all means, carry on. There's nothing to see here. Since most of you stuck around, let's consider Balance & Composure's second LP The Things We Think We're Missing. The Doylestown, Penn...
- pitchfork.com
2013-09-13
★★★★★
If you're reading this, chances are good that at some point in your life, there was an album that completely consumed you. To you, this album was a perfect allegory of an imperfect time, a time when you were wrong, misled, confused or disappointed, either by your own actions or the actions of others...
- www.punknews.org
2013-09-11
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