★★★★★
It's almost surprising that this didn't happen sooner. Fans have (well, at least I have) been hoping for something like this, a split between two of the most passionate bands in the "wave"/hardcore/something genre - Pianos Become The Teeth and Touché Amoré. Thankfully that wait is finally over (for me) as 2013 immediately treats us to what has to be one of the best split releases in recent memory. Each band contributed one new song to this release and the results are spectacular...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-01-08
★★★★★
It's been a while since I got an album to move me like the days of listening to Drive Like Jehu and At The Drive In. A lesson learned? Ask and ye shall receive. "Good Times" imparts itself as a stunning opener that really gets you thinking "Wow...these guys are gonna top Old Pride?" Kyle Durfey's style hasn't wavered and the band's essence that renders them the epitome of screamo is well accentuated here...
- www.punknews.org
2011-11-24
★★★★★
Pianos Become The Teeth's outstanding debut release 'Old Pride' shone out as one of the best releases of 2010, it's rawness dripping with emotion and utterly compelling. Yet it didn't quite see the band gain the recognition they so greatly deserve, nevertheless 'The Lack Long After' will no doubt cement their place at the forefront of the New Wave Hardcore movement. Bringing along with it further emphasis on the elements that make this Baltimore five piece so explosive, yet hauntingly melodic...
- www.alterthepress.com
2011-11-21
★★★★★
Incredibly personal, quite often dark, emotionally-driven and chaotic, Pianos Become the Teeth's The Lack Long After may not be everyone's cup of tea - but you have to appreciate the quintent's desire to stay true to their sound...
- www.musicreview.co.za
2011-11-21
★★★★★
Summary: A profound and engaging musical experience that displays why Pianos Become the Teeth are so damn good at what they do. 31 of 31 thought this review was well written Let no man say that what Pianos Become the Teeth lack is passion, for their visceral, heart wrenching approach to their craft is the very definition of the word itself...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2011-11-03
★★★★★
Pianos Become The Teeth's last album, Old Pride, was aptly named. But where that disc celebrated the bygone era of '90s screamo, Pianos' new full-length, The Lack Long After, savagely forges ahead. As raw and messy as a picked scab, the album lacks in nothing: There are concussive confessionals ("I'll Be Damned") and apocalyptic atmosphere pieces ("I'll Get By")...
- www.altpress.com
2011-10-31
★★★★★
Release Date: November 1, 2011 I usually like to spend more than a week with a record before I review it. I like to give it time to settle in and see what sort of return it can have in time. I want to absorb everything it has to offer with as many listens as possible. But sometimes a record just hits on the first couple of plays. As a critic (or just a general elitist prick as we are often seen as), we can tend to over-analyze more than we should...
- absolutepunk.net
2011-10-17
★★★★★
Baltimore's Pianos Become The Teeth cleverly combine elements of screamo, hardcore and post-rock with compelling 8-track release, 'Old Pride'. Beginning with 'Filial' and 90's emo-like guitars before erupting into what sounds like Thursday, at their most chaotic. What follows is a mixture of screams, that at times dominate over well thought out melodies, that bring a sense of grandness...
- www.alterthepress.com
2010-12-21
★★★★★
Release Date: January 12, 2010 It seems like we always need a word to describe a movement or a genre or something brewing that only a select few seem to appreciate. In the wake of choreographed headbanging, chugs, growls and falsettos for fourteen year old angsty suburbanites, we have "the wave." What is "the wave" you ask...
- absolutepunk.net
2010-07-09
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