SCARSICK

Scarsick... a highly underrated album. While Scarsick is my least favorite PoS album thus far, it is by no means bad. The band continues to blur the line seperating different genres and has made something that's different from everything they've done before it. This is easily the least progressive album they've released, but that doesn't keep me from loving it.

Scarsick can't be generalized - every song is radically different from the last. You've got the goofy pop- ish oddity of America, the rap-rock Spitfall, and of course Disco Queen. All very different, but all very good. The track that stands out the most, as usual, is the closer: Enter Rain. A very atmospheric track with a saddening end.

The lyrical content is what I enjoy most about Scarsick, and it's some of my favorite work from Gildenlow yet. I'd say it's the most blatant in it's meaning than on previous albums, but it's still very well written. I can identify with a lot of it too, so it clicks on a personal level.

If you're offended by freedom of speech, avoid this album. Otherwise, it's a great album that sounds like nothing else. It doesn't hold up to the brilliance of Remedy Lane / Be / Perfect Element, but really, what can?