This is Samiam’s first album in 12 years, and we get to share our thoughts with you right here. An album that throughout feels like its dragging emo along like a rag doll, songs that are filled with hard luck and emotional turmoil but set out in a way that never gives up. Whats really noticeable and you get it from the off, is that the songs although as normally long as your average pop song, they feel so much shorter, ‘Lake Speed’ which was recorded in one take, feels exactly that, its fast to the point and over before you know it. ‘Crystalized’ which is next up has a much more controlled feel, its musically full of melody, yet drives a along on a powerful drum beat, and is most definitely built of everything this band seem to encapsulate, lyrically seems to be a lament on the...