The Blood Brothers

Seattle's Blood Brothers may shriek like maniacs and invoke scenarios of absolute, complete chaos, but there's something restrained and melodic in their anarchic punk-prog rave-ups. It's that same something that makes this album's hiccups, wheezes and spastic screams so totally compelling.

Seattle screamo outfit the Blood Brothers are known for their ferocious live show, but, for
their fourth album, they wanted to make music that wouldn't wear them out on the road.
Crimes offers slightly less larynx-endangering wailing than 2003's Burn Piano Island, Burn,
but it still brims with enough rhythmic diversity and vocal gymnastics that the group is going
to need a long rest after its upcoming tour. "Feed Me to the Forest" creeps in on... More >