Dead Letter Circus "The Catalyst Fire"



Ended up liking their debut album more and more after posting briefly on it three+ years ago.  For those of you didn't bother to click the link and take 40 seconds to read it (I said it was brief, didn't I?), this is the line that stood out when I cleared 40 seconds off my docket to refresh my memory, "...it suffers a sameness from track to track on a complete listen."  And there you have the problem with this album.

From what I gather, "Catalyst Fire" went to #2 again on the Aussie charts and they've toured with Muse and Linkin Park.  This album brought My Chemical Romance to mind and they only worked once for me, too.  My computer's music player labels it Hard Rock while they call themselves Alternative Rock, and I'm going to say it's By The Numbers Rock.  I'm only keeping two tracks, neither of which are featured, so far.  One has the vocalist in his falsetto phrasing like Jon Anderson
while the tune itself could have been a Yes song from an alternative universe when they would have been a rock band.  Here is the latest single and video...





I purchased the import version, of course, and I've learned that the American release has three extra tracks, two of which are acoustic versions of the first singles.  Am I disappointed?

Not really...