Every once in a while, you’ll listen to a band that changes up the game for their genre. I’d have to say that’s just what Restless Streets did for the post hardcore genre.  I know there are a lot of post hardcore bands coming out with their debut single, or debut album, and are trying to make a name for themselves. A lot of them go un-noticed for the wrong reasons; because they aren’t big, or don’t have many fans. Now, that may be Restless Streets case. They’re still a fairly small band to hit the scene, but they have everything they need to make it big, and to make a good name for themselves. “Sincerely” seriously helps them out a bit to make a good name for themselves. The vocals are perfect whether they be cleans, or screams, they make you have chills, or they make you cringe in some areas. Now, I don’t mean cringe in a bad way; I mean it in a good way. The vocals are just phenomenal, along with the instrument play that you’ll be hearing throughout this album. A few songs that stood out on this album would be, “My Life As A frequency”, “Time Alone”, ”Crazies”, ”Beautiful Friends”, “Skeletons”,“21 To Life”, and ”Sincerely”. “Young & Awake”, is pretty much an intro track to the album. It leads right into “My Life As A Frequency”, which is pretty nice because I’ll be the first to admit that “Young & Awake” was a beautiful intro, and I definitely wasn’t expecting that the first time I gave this album a play. “My Life As A Frequency” might be the first actual song on the album, but it’s definitely my favorite because of the meaning behind it. It just has something that’s pretty relatable, and nice to hear. The instruments on the song are pretty clear, and you can hear everything perfectly. To be completely honest, there are no flaws at all. “My Life As A Frequency”, is also perfectly timed; not too long, or too short. It’s perfectly timed at just four minutes. “Time Alone” caught my attention because of the guitars at the intro of it. The tuning used was great, and it just really caught my attention quickly leading me to listen to the song fully. Listening to the album to the point of “Time Alone”, will make you wonder if the guys in Restless Streets could write a bad song. I’d have to be honest, I asked that as well. None of the songs on the album are bad; they’re all either decent, good, or downright perfect. Each song has a meaning behind them, and you can relate to them a bit. This is the key element to any good album that comes out today. It needs to have songs that have a good meaning, and a meaning that many people can relate too. “Crazies” was the first single, and the first song that I had ever heard from Restless Streets. Within thirty seconds of this song, they got me hooked on their music. “Crazies” would have to be my all-time favorite song from Restless Streets. The song isn’t too soft, or too heavy; it’s perfectly written. And yes, if you can guess, it has a pretty relatable meaning behind it. “Beautiful Friends”, is one of the softer songs on the album. I mean you didn’t expect this whole album to be heavy, right? This song has some of the better clean vocals on the album. The clean vocals kind of match the emotion towards the song, which gives the song the edge in order to be one of the better soft songs on the album. “Skeletons”, is another song that had some guitar play that impressed me quite a bit. The screams also impressed me, and gave me some chills when I first listened to them. “Skeletons”, is sadly the third to the last song on the album, and when you’ll listen to this song you might get a bit upset knowing that this masterpiece is about to end. “21 To Life”, was the second single to promote the album. It’s sadly the last song on this piece of art. The song ends the album on a rather heavy note. Also, if you listen closely to the intro to the song, you might be able to tell they were probably trying to grip the whole concept on the song. The intro was a necessary thing, and it gave this song its bang. “Sincerely” is not only the title track to the album but also the last song on the album. “Sincerely” gave the band a bang to end off their album and impress everyone. The screams and cleans both have a style in this song to impress someone. Restless Streets are very talented, and will (hopefully) make it big in this scene of music.

Breakdown:

Cleans: The clean vocals are definitely new to hear a bit. The style isn’t used as much, and all the production on them make them sound a bit raw. This is something that people can enjoy, and will do the band some serious good towards the critics. The clean vocalist can hit some semi-high notes, and some low notes. The clean vocalist is very talented, and knows his vocal cords pretty well. I’d like to see him improve, to make his cords sound even better on the next release!

Screams: The vocalist is also a screamer and is pretty talented, and he does know his vocal cords. The screamer has some of the bone chilling type screams in some of the songs. Just not in all of them. The songs that have him screaming along with his cleans, are some of my favorites. His screams really impressed me on the first two singles, and even more on this release.

Instruments: The instrument play on this album is either decently good, or great. In some songs it lacks a bit, and could have been better. But in other places, it’s perfectly timed, and perfectly placed. The guitar player definitely knows how to play his instrument, and how to make some interesting noises from it. I do give him that much! The drummer is great as well, keeping attention of the listener is difficult sometimes, but he did that perfectly! The bass player (yes you can hear the bass a little on this), did some good for the album as well. The places where you can hear a bit of bass, are the parts that all the instrument sound amazing together.