"Letters to You"
and
"Perfection Through Silence"
are the obvious bomb tracks on
Falling into Place
,
Finch
's rousing
Drive-Thru
debut. Both songs teem with an energy that helps posit the band cleverly between post-
hardcore
noise and
pop
-
punk
accessibility. "Where do you run to?" croons
Nate Barcalow
in the bridge of
"Letters to You."
It's your basic
emo
-influenced diary entry. However,
Barcalow
's heart-in-mouth vocals are accompanied by jarring, staccato guitars and another guy screaming his head off in the background. Straddling the line that separates the sappy from the scabrous isn't new, either, especially on
, whose entire roster seems to thrive on that dichotomy. But
rocks the familiar well enough to be real on
, and that makes their debut much more than just a one-night stand. ~ Johnny Loftus