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• Artist: Silverstein
• Album: A Shipwreck In The Sand
• Label: Victory Records
• Year of Release: 2009
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• Reviewed by: blackxdan on 2009-04-12

Silverstein - A Shipwreck In the Sand

I've spent a good three hours now, trying to find the best way to make an opening for my review of Silverstein's fourth album A Shipwreck In The Sand.  If this had been the previous album Arrivals and Departures, I could easily come up with some stupid line about the title of the album and comparing it to the arrivals of little new fans and the departure of a lot of die hard Silverstein fans.  Fortunately, it's not the same case with A Shipwreck In The Sand.  The Silverstein sound has changed a with this album.  The music is constructed in such a more complex nature, and has a lot more of a hard rock feeling to it.  Kind of like When Broken Is Easily Fixed was first released along with some songs off of Discovering The Waterfront.  In my opinion, I think that A Shipwreck In The Sand can honestly give Discovering The Waterfront a run for it's money for the title of the best Silverstein album.  The only thing that needs to change about this band is the lyrics.  It gets annoying hearing about the same thing in every song.  There has always been a focus around stabbing, daggers, broken hearts, and some other emo bullshit like that.   It gets played out very quickly, especially when you're into your fourth album.

As with every other album, after listening to the entire album through, you realize that there are a lot of tracks that will stick into your head or stand out more than others.  This album has A LOT of those type of tracks.  There are so many things that make the Silverstein songs so great, and it adds even more value to it when you listen to the guest vocalist contributions.  Songs that will stand out to most people will be A Great Fire, Vices(featuring Liam Cormier), American Dream, Born Dead(featuring Scott Wade), You're All I Have, and The End(featuring Lights).  There is one thing I continue to notice as I listen to this album more and more.  There is not really a general direction of the genre in this album.  Not every song on here is a fast paced hardcore song like Born Dead.  Not every song is a melodic acoustic song like The End.  The genre of each song is so totally different, the entire album is different and full of surprises.

A Shipwreck In The Sand may very well be the best Silverstein album to date. With the changes within the tracks and variations of genres makes it a must have.  If you were a fan of Silverstein before and became lost with them because of Arrivals and Departures, then you might be able to find your love in them again with A Shipwreck in The Sand.

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