Three years since 's last studio album, keeps true to the eclectic mix of passionately delivered post-grunge that has built the band a core of loyal fans over the years. And while it's this eclectic quality that allows to sneak successful singles to the top of modern rock charts, the somewhat challenging nature of their music is also what seems to keep them from really staying in the mainstream spotlight. After all, many of the same people who would eat up the soaring 'Hate Me' -- which was gathering considerable momentum on radio before 's release -- might not comprehend the rest of the album compared to their copies of the latest from and. They may enjoy the up and down nature -- from introspective brooding to straightforward rock -- that appears on 'What If We Could,' but the album's highlights come in the moments when the band doesn't rely on in-your-face tactics to get its point across. The often desolate and anguished nature of 's lyrics complement his aching voice, which still comes off as a self-aware, less pious, along with 's affecting violin.

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As such, while 'Hate Me' is the catchy, more formulaic song of the album, his distraught confrontation of the personal selfishness that apparently ruined a past love makes the song work beyond radio accessibility. Sheesh, every jilted girlfriend of a messed-up relationship should be so lucky as to have a remorseful guy outwardly admit sentiments like 'Kicking shadows on the street for every mistake that I had made/And like a baby boy I never was a man.'

The dark 'Drilled a Wire Through My Cheek' explores 's somewhat split personality with a crunchy rap/rock chorus that contrasts the funk guitar of calmer, introspective sections. On the lighter side, 'Everlasting Friend' is a warmly executed, piano-laced delight that hints, along with the intimate '18th Floor Balcony,' that the often broken frontman still holds hope close. Things get a little hairy, however, on the deviating 'X Amount of Words. Download Human Japanese Full Crack Pc. ' A -ish techno beat leads the song's delivery into realms similar to -- no, seriously -- 's 'Goodies' with occasional background vocals appearing with a likeness to 's; but at least the sheer weirdness of the song makes it admittedly fun.

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Texas quintet Blue October formed during the post-grunge boom of the mid-'90s when vocalist/guitarist Justin Furstenfeld began penning angst-ridden rock songs with the help of his brother, drummer Jeremy Furstenfeld, and violinist Ryan Delahoussaye. Bassist Liz Mullaly completed the band's initial lineup, and Blue October released an independent debut album, The Answers, in 1998. The band's emotive brand of post-grunge led to the sale of 5,000 copies in their native Houston alone. Two years later, Blue October made their major-label debut on Universal with Consent to Treatment, with Matt Noveskey replacing Mullaly. By the time Blue October began prepping for their third album, 2003's History for Sale, C.B. Hudson (guitar/vocals) had been added to the lineup. The album's first single, 'Calling You,' became a Top 40 hit thanks to its inclusion on the American Wedding soundtrack, and the album earned many positive reviews.

The live CD/DVD package Argue with a Tree was released in 2004, following 18 months of touring. Noveskey had briefly left the band for health reasons in 2002, but he returned in time to record Blue October's first studio album in three years, Foiled, which was issued in April 2006 and went platinum one year later. Before the band went on tour with Yellowcard in September 2007, Universal/Motown released Foiled for the Last Time, a two-disc set consisting of a full version of Foiled, 14 newly recorded songs performed live, and several alternative remixes. Recording sessions for the band's fifth studio album, Approaching Normal, commenced in mid-2008 with producer Steve Lillywhite, and the finished product appeared early the following year. The tour in support of the album was cut short due to the eventually openly discussed mental health issues of their frontman. They returned with two albums in 2011, Ugly Side: An Acoustic Evening with Blue October (recorded live in Austin, Dallas, and Houston) and the darker Any Man in America, made during Justin Furstenfeld's divorce and loss of child custodial rights. After his seeking treatment including rehab, the group's seventh studio album, the PledgeMusic-funded Sway, followed in 2013.