Music Review #4 - Underoath: Lost In the Sound of Seperation

I don't know if anyone besides me checks out the website JesusFreakHideout.com much, but I visit there everyday in order to keep up with new Christian music releases and the such. Well Underoath's new cd "Lost In the Sound of Seperation" came out Tuesday, and they just poster their "review" of it last night/this morning. I was pretty disappointed in their review. They rated it what I would've rated it, but the actual body of the review was pathetic, so hopefully in the next day or so I'll write my own review for it on here. Be on the lookout!
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Artist: Underoath
Album: Lost In the Sound of Separation
Label: Solid State Records
Release Date: 09/02/08

Rating: ********** 10/10

I've been a fan of Underoath since around 2006 when I first heard their single "Reinventing Your Exit" on their CD "They're Only Chasing Safety". At the time I was a huge screamo/hardcore fan, so there was a select few songs on TOCS that I really enjoyed and only enjoyed those because of the singing of Aaron Gillespie, vocalist/drummer. When Underoath released their album "Define the Great Line" summer 2006 and it was marginally more hardcore then TOCS, I didn't really give it a good listen. Two years later, I have to appreciate the hardcore genre more. Looking back TOCS was my favorite Underoath album, but I enjoyed DTGL much more. Earlier this week however Underoath released their fifth studio album (third with vocalist Spencer Chamberlain), "Lost In the Sound of Seperation" I had a new favorite CD.

Not only is "Lost In the Sound..." a beautiful album, it also has many more Christian references that you can understand as you listen through the CD. The brutal CD opener "Breathing In a New Mentality" opens with the line "I'm the desperate, You're the Savior", a pretty blatant Christian reference for Underoath.

Musically I think Lost In the Sound of Separation is somewhere in between TOCS and DTGL. The whole album is overall more brutal and chaotic, but their are also times where they will bring it down some. On the second to last track on the album "Too Bright To See, Too Loud to Hear", non-screaming vocalist Aaron Gillespie does a good majority of the singing, a first for Underoath. This is also one of my favorite track on the CD because it really shows new maturity and real breaking ground for Underoath.

Album highlights include: "Breathing In A New Mentality", "Anyone Can Dig A Hole But It Takes A Real Man To Call It Home", "A Fault Line, A Fault of Mine",.....heck the whole album is a highlight. In all honesty, go to iTunes, spend the $10. It's cheaper than anywhere else plus you get a cool 15 minutes "Making Of..." video that is only available through the iTunes store.