"Heroine" CD by From First To Last

by Oliver Kube (04.04.2006) Screamo-, emo-, post-hardcore - whatever you wanna call the sound of F.F.T.L., it ain't become any easier to swallow on this second album, either. Produced by Ross Robinson, the five guys from Orlando, Florida, again put their emphasis on the catchiness of their complex, extremely energetic compositions on the successor of the highly acclaimed debut, “Dear diary, my teen angst has a bodycount“. Fans of powerful live performances of songs, like “Mothersound“ or the intense “Waltz moore“ will be thrilled. Especially in the epic tracks, “The crows are coming for us“ or “The levy“, frontman Sonny Moore & Co. prove how much they have matured in the past one and a half years since their debut album was released. Very interesting is also the sequencer- and breakbeat-experiment, “Wave Goodbye“. There are only very few bands who dare something like that - especially not such a young band in this often so dogmatic and more and more conservative genre...