The Amity Affliction’s last album, 2018’s Misery, was an odd one. To some fans, it was a disappointment; to others, it was simply confusing. The idea to make a pop-leaning, electronica-infused rock album wasn’t a bad one in principle – Bring Me The Horizon’s recent successes attest to that – but the execution of Misery was all wrong, with the dark heart of the band’s identity buried beneath largely forgettable AA-light songs that didn’t leave a lasting impression. Thankfully, on Everyone Loves You… Once You Leave Them, the Queensland quartet show that the experiment of last time wasn’t a sign of things to come, and manage to successfully lay to rest some of the question marks raised by that record, proving that there’s still a decent amount left in the tank. Where the singles from Misery w...
