What a friggon awful CD. It sounds like a really really bad garage band. Jesus Christ.

With the energetic sound of "Bullet to Binary", mewithoutYou's first full-length immediately stands out. Front man Aaron Weiss brashly yelling, "Let us die, let us die!" and distorted guitars keeping a quick beat, this album that pulls you from one raw blast of sound to the next, with one song starting before you're even sure the last one has ended. Between screams, though (and sometimes even during them), you'll find the most fascinating of arrangements and experimentations. The album's second song, for example, "The Ghost", makes use of clean vocals and guitar licks that give it at times a flavor more reminiscent of good ol' rock-and-roll than the typical hardcore album.

There isn't a song on the album that isn't likewise full of new ideas. The next track, "Nice and Blue", hides haunting backup vocals below expressive guitar riffs and even more expressive vocals ("I was once alive when you held me!...When you held me..."). "Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt" is an unusual, almost ambient-feeling mix of sounds that, around 2:44, suddenly reveals at its center unmistakably desperate lyrics and sounds. So the album continues, through two ambient interludes, even more intense post-hardcore blasts, and a final acoustic song hidden far after the end of "The Cure for Pain".

Then there are the lyrics, polished enough to be unmistakable masterpieces and raw enough to give you the feeling that in writing them the lyricist is brushing against a still-sore wound on his flesh--breakup songs to the last, but not a trace of the trite clichés that many bring to such themes. "My face has changed, but you know it's me--you know by the stillness in my eyes!" screams "Gentlemen"... "I made you so happy and so sad," another one confesses--"which should I be more sorry for?" All of this sung (or rather, spoken) with the emotional but unmelodious tone of Aaron Weiss, whose emotionally unhinged outpourings make this either one of post-hardcore's best albums or its worst, depending how you feel about them. You can glimpse the tenderness of mewithoutYou's later albums on this album in a few places, but more so, this is the most intense album of a band that so far has released not a singe song that was anything short of spectacular.

I purchased this cd after listening to "Catch For Us The Foxes" and I have to say that everyone that I've forced it upon has also fallen in love with it. If you're a fan of hard indie rock, screaming vocals in a spoken word style, amazing lyrics, and a nearly perfectly arranged album, this is definately for you. This is one of the few cd's I own that sounds best when listened to from start to finish.

this is the example of good music,outstanding pieces of music with aaron wiess's lyrics is just an amazing expierience,and people have been mentioning that they cant categorize mewithoutYou's musical styling, i personaly consider them
Art-core, just cause there music is like art as it seems to me,

The whole album - 10/10

just buy the cd please. its better then catch for us the foxes
yes, its the most emotional cd i probaly have ever heard