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• Artist: Sounds Like Violence
• Album: With Blood On My Hands
• Label: Deep Elm
• Year of Release: 2007
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• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2007-06-09

Sounds Like Violence have sure taken their sweet time getting their proper debut full-length album out the door. But now that With Blood On My Hands is actually out we find out that it was well worth the wait. One of the better albums on Deep Elm in the last couple of years, most definitely. If you liked their Pistol EP a few years back then there isn't any reason why you wouldn't like With Blood On My Hands, their first full-length album out on Deep Elm and Burning Heart. They bring to the table the brunt of a classic emo style. That of Jawbox, Braid and others. This hasn't been done for a while and SLV does it very well.

The album opens up with the strong "Nothing", which is almost radio-ready. Then Soderlund and crew hit you with the jaded "Where You Ever In Love With Me", very powerful song. They reach for access with "Wrong", a song that has all the hooks in the right places. "Until Death Do Us Apart" seems like a very vicious song even though it isn't all that heavy. It just has some razor-like edges.

"Changes" is a great example of the accessibility Sounds Like Violence has. While sounding slightly Interpol-ish they manage keep it sounding their own. "Glad I'm Losing You" is another one of those tracks striving for radio play. In fact, you could take almost any track off of With Blood On My Hands and put it up against today's radio fare.

I couldn't get over how catchy Sounds Like Violence is here. This album comes recommended to those looking for a solid rock/emo album.

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