Touche Amore – Is Survived By

Vinyl LP pressing. 2013 album from the Post-Hardcore outfit. Is Survived By was produced and engineered by Brad Wood (Smashing Pumpkins, Sunny Day Real Estate, etc) and mastered by Hans DeKline (Lisa Loeb, mewithoutYou, etc). The album shows Touche Amore embracing a maturation of their trademark melancholy. The sounds are welcomingly familiar; inspired percussion amid a sea of imaginative guitars and impassioned vocals. However, the underlying unrest is more complex and touching than any previous Touche Amore release before it. Simply put, these are not simple ‘love’ songs that dwell in the past, but complex ‘life’ songs about living in the present.