Watch Out! still is one of my favorite post-hardcore records, so when Crisis came out in 2006 I was stoked. Too bad after a couple listens it just mentally faded into dust and blew away.
Thankfully Alexisonfire's latest album Old Crows/Young Cardinals returns to the sound we all love. While Dallas Green continues to prove he has one of the best pipes in music (period), George Pettit has traded in his injured howl for a demanding bark. Listen as he carries "Old Crows" all by himself, not relenquishing the vocal spotlight to Green until the smooth chorus of following track "Young Cardinals". The bands heaviness remains intact (shown off here with better production), pushing the noise to the brink until Green's soulful vocals soar stratospherically. ("Born and Raised" and "Midnight Regulations") These boys from Ontario even get down and dirty in good ol' Southern rock, sludging through "The Northern". See, Canada's got more that just hockey and universal health care...
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"Oh, young cardinals,
nesting in the trees
Oh, hear our song,
And reign your innocence on me."
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