Fully Down (the) - Don't Get Lost in a Movement

Name: The Fully Down
Album: Don't Get Lost in a Movement
Year: 2005
Style: Prog, Emo, Punk
Similar Bands: Pup, Bayside, Boy Sets Fire, Between the Buried & Me, No Use for a Name, Anberlin
"One-Word" Review: suburban struggle promo (prog-emo)
Based Out Of: Ottowa, Ontario
Label: Fearless Records

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Don't Get Lost in a Movement (2005)

1. Cost of Comfort 3:50
2. Descent, Rebellion, and All Around Hell Raising 3:09
3. Live and Die by the Shotgun Rules 2:39
4. Revenge is Profitable, Gratitude is Expensive 3:07
5. We Love to Know We're Not Alone 2:05
6. Plug in the Eliminator 2:43
7. We Are All Accomplices 3:43
8. Hey...You Guys Want To See a Dead Body? 3:39
9. Go to Heaven for the Climate, Hell for the Company 3:01
10. The Thoughtless Act of a Single Day 0:44
11. No Fate... 3:14
12. A Question of Perspective 3:50
13. Live in Motion 4:51

Album Rating (1-10): 5.5

Members & Other Bands:

• Dean Hadjichristou - Engineer, Mixing, Producer
• Alan Douches - Mastering
• Rachel Parts - Addl Vox
• Trevor Strange - Addl Vox
• Jon Chandler - Addl Vox (Corboe, Amos the Transparent, Mitch Mainville)
• Pat Brayley - Addl Vox
• Mike Ieradi - Addl Vox (Mystery Weekend, Protest the Hero, Kindred, Today I Caught the Plague)
• Mike Fairless - Addl Vox, Tour Manager
• Mike Noel - Addl Vox
• Jon Desilva - Addl Vox
• Kuro Collective - Album Design & Layout
• Gab Bouchard - Vox
• Dan Hay - Guitar (Amos the Transparent, Mystery Weekend)
• Alex Newman - Bass (The Bad Ideas)
• Richard "Bricks" Latour - Drums
• George Hadji - Guitar
• Kris Parks - Guitar

Unknown-ness: Don't know this band, but it totally looks like an electro pop emo band, which typically doesn't exist, as the two sides counter balance & nullify each other...but the artwork is very much like The Fever or Metric or Cut Copy, but the band pics inside tell a story of a darker, emo band. The album titles are quite long, which further promotes the emo vibe. So dark shouty songs over electronic, catchy melodies? Maybe like the Epoxies?

Album Review: This band combines Math Rock / Speed Prog tendancies, which sound a little bit like video games played on dueling guitars, with emotive vocals: sometimes shouty, sometimes melodic, sometimes pining. This is not really my thing, so although some of the music is fun, like the start of "Revenge..." the lyrics detract from the melodies, altering them musically into sweeping walls of sound rather than the playful melodies initially set. I can see goth bros swinging and fist pumping along in the pit as the music stops and starts its various driving sequences, where they feel connected to the struggle of growing up in the white community suburbs. 

The Canadian band started with a slightly different line up from 1999 - 2002, they recorded, but never released anything until they reorganized in 2003. They only had 2 albums before the singer left in 2006 & was replaced by another vocalist who had his own following, but that version of the band also recorded without a full length release, and ended splitting in 2008. They have toured with many like minded bands in Canada before this record, and in the US & Japan later. They played a couple Warped Tours, which seems like the ideal audience match up.

Stand Out Track: The Thoughtless Act of a Single Day

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