★★★★★
Deathwish, Inc. circa 2013 has quite the fascination with the pretty music/harsh vocal contrast. This was seen first earlier this year in Deafheaven's Sunbather, an album that, while divisive in its composition, is more or less viewed as a landmark in the ever-growing "post-black metal" craze, which began in a big way with Alcest's 2007 masterpiece Souvenirs d'un autre monde...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-11-27
★★★★★
Release Date: September 24, 2013 Is it just me or does the lead singer sound exactly like the lead singer from La Dispute? Maybe the difference between the two is the fact that this one, Jeremy Bolm screams a lot more. Anyway, onto the music and my review, this is a great album. "Praise/Love" ends where "Anyone/Anything" begins which leads this album off to a nice and solid start. Touché Amoré sound a bit panicked throughout the whole album...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-11-26
★★★★★
After a bracing EP and two genre-revitalizing LPs, nothing was the same for Los Angeles post-hardcore band Touché Amoré going into Is Survived By. Lead singer Jeremy Bolm's got a lot on his mind-- He's concerned about what his third album will mean for his legacy as an artist and whether he's focused too much on what he does rather than who he is. He sees the replication of his father's shortcomings in his current relationships, but realizes his old man did the best he could...
- pitchfork.com
2013-10-04
★★★★★
Growing up as an adolescent in the 2000's, the only word that was more offensive than "emo" was, of course, "screamo." Of course, being the sheltered middle/high school student I was, I was completely unaware of what either term actually meant in a historical sense (to my younger self, My Chemical Romance practically invented emo), but pretty much anything that ended in "-mo" was a curse word, and the use of it was an instant turn-off...
- www.noripcord.com
2013-10-02
★★★★★
Sammi Chichester | Sep 26, 2013 | Comments 1 | Tags: Touche Amore Touché Amoré are hardly your typical hardcore band, as they demonstrate once again with album No. 3. Instead of rehashing "stabbed in the back" clichés, songs like "Just Exist" and the title track see frontman Jeremy Bolm exploring his own existential doubt over a wall of controlled catharsis where even blast beats sound melodic...
- www.revolvermag.com
2013-10-24
★★★★★
As a gut response to being surrounded by infinite soapboxes for those with opinions and arseholes, cynicism is the armour du jour. Especially now that we fight our battles in comment sections rather than the trenches, it takes something pretty exceptional these days to fully bypass the firewall of our emotional accessibility. The gut-punch of sincerity that Touché Amoré frontman Jeremy Bolm delivers on Is Survived By though, threatens to be just that...
- drownedinsound.com
2013-09-25
★★★★★
There's no subtle way to put it: Touche Amore definitely hit it out the park. Jeremy Bolm and his posse have taken the time and care since 2011 to ensure that Is Survived By plays off as not only their most mature and heartfelt record to date. It's the record that could well define Touche Amore's legacy.
Bolm's candor, vulnerability and honesty is what makes Is Survived By explicitly profound. It's his diary laid bare for the listener. Poetry in motion...
- www.punknews.org
2013-09-26
★★★★★
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Touché Amoré - Is Survived ByTouché Amoré - Is Survived ByRelease Date: September 24, 2013
Record Label: Deathwish
Repeating history (or success) isn't the hard part; it's maintaining that success consistently that proves most challenging for many bands...
- www.absolutepunk.net
2013-09-26
★★★★★
Repeating history (or success) isn't the hard part; it's maintaining that success consistently that proves most challenging for many bands. And maintaining that consistency was one of, if not the main focus for Touché Amoré when the band recorded their third full-length earlier this year. The Los Angeles hardcore unit has been steadily gaining a dedicated fanbase for the past five or so years, putting out much-adored albums like 2011's Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me (the band's...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-09-25
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