The Saddest Landscape is a screamo band. Their songs: heartfelt, loud and soft with repeated lines and an intensity that is sincere. Live the band doesn't hold back. It's hard to take your eyes away from lead singer Andy, as he screams his heart out about love, desperation, the hardness, the goodness, like there's a cathartic release each time he utters his words and moves around. Like he's taking you one bit closer to his world. One of struggle, yet he gives you hope. But somehow we can relate in some way. Life is hard but we survive or we don't. You can tell the music takes him away. The band started with "Declaring War on Nostalgia" from their new album You Will Not Survive and closed with "The Sixth Golden Ticket." I couldn't make out or remember the songs they played in between. The PA was super loud and I was trying to focus on Aaron's drumming and Andy's playing. One things for sure though. The band put their all into this set.
"And I just want to go back to when we didn't have to drink ourselves to sleep, back to when our dreams didn't weight us down, back to when each day didn't feel like something we just survived." --from Declaring war on Nostalgia
The band was playing its first show of the band's weekend record release shows. Unfortunately, the band's Connecticut house show the night prior got shut down by cops. This was my first time seeing the band. Sometime a year or to ago I discovered the band and fell in love with "The Stars of January," which sadly they didn't play this time. I was going to see them at The Charleston in Brooklyn but their equipment which their buddies Trophy Scars had didn't make it. I'm glad I saw them now, though! My Heart to Joy, We Are Skeltons, The New & Very Welcome, and Acres also played.
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