Off With Their Head - In Desolation

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In life there are times you can’t understand thing unless you experience them. I remember once my older brother told me he didn’t believe in depression, I was short of slapping him across the face and it’s a good thing I didn’t cuz motherfucker is huge. The truth is he wasn’t completely wrong; for a person who has never suffered from depression this can come out as appearing that the person suffering from it don’t want to deal with his/her problems or even in some scenes kids just think its “cool”. Truth is depression sucks big fucking time, I’ve been depressed probably since the beginning of the year and even though I’m getting better thanks to family, friends, therapy and music I’m pretty ashamed of me for not using those feelings to write music as fucking accurate as the one Ryan Young wrote for the new Off with their heads album In Desolation.

First time I heard this band I didn’t like them at all, it took me seeing them live to understand how truly great they were and it was a plus that their drummer Francis was kind enough to give me a ride from St. Paul to Minnesota without knowing me. After properly analyzing their then last record “From The Bottom” I thought -this band its fucking awesome but I don’t know If I should be listening to something so negative on a daily basis without it ruining my day. Fast-forward a really shitty year Off with their heads got signed to epitaph and their record came out. I heard a couple of songs before its release that sounded just the way everyone expected... then I heard the whole thing and It blew me away. I still don’t know if this is their best record to date, it might sound pretty much the same in pretty much every song, even though the topics on the track list might change the album is solely about being fucking crushed, wanting to be alone and die and its fucking perfect. If I had tried to write down the last 6 months of my life I wouldn’t have been able to write something so precise, all the self alienation, the insecurity, the regret, the need for people but the fear of pity it’s all in there and didn’t came with an elegant way of saying it nor it minded to be repeated in the following song.

And that thing that had me worried on their last record about ruining my day, well, its fucking gone. I hear this record and I remember every single thing I have gone through and smile cuz at the end of the day If I’m still here is because life is worth living, but there are some major off with their heads days when being optimistic won’t do and you need this songs to cope with being who you are and get shit done.

Get this record If your life sucks, if not you won’t appreciate it.
Gastón

Best songs: Drive, Trying To Breathe, ZZYZX, Clear The Air
(Too lazy to write it again in Spanish)