Touché Amoré
Lament
Release Date: Oct 9, 2020
Genre(s): Pop/Rock
Record label: Epitaph
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Album Review: Lament by Touché Amoré
Excellent, Based on 4 Critics
Based on rating 8.5/10
Stage Four is not where Bolm's story ended though. As he states on the closing track of his bands new record Lament, "Since the last time we spoke / I've learned quite a lot" ("A Forecast"), Stage Four was just the beginning of his journey with grief. There were no conclusions, or easy answers. It was a warts and all portrayal of the experience of loss.
Based on rating 8.2/10
Jeremy Bolm has spent the past decade striving to live up to the example set by his own words. The music he makes with his band, Touché Amoré, compels guys with neck tattoos to spend a half hour irresponsibly slamming into fellow fans before they corner Bolm after the show and reveal how they felt truly seen by "And Now It's Happening In Mine." He'll be the first to tell you about the ways he falls short: 2013's Is Survived By explored Bolm's struggles with the pressures of being in a profoundly impactful (but not famous) hardcore band, which brought even greater success and demands. Bolm missed his mother's dying day because he was "on stage living the dream" at Fest in Florida.
Based on rating 8/10
If you've watched the music video for Touché Amoré's Reminders, an excellent song off their new album Lament, you'd be forgiven for being confused as to why such a dark band made such an adorable music video about things that bring joy. Coming off of 2016's Stage Four, it felt hard to characterize the five piece's music as anything other than the most soul-crushing and enthralling post-hardcore that was out there. If you've heard lead vocalist Jeremy Bolm's howl, it's likely you'd be destroyed by his honest and genuine songwriting—the kind of craft that brings songs like Flowers & You or the Julien Baker duet Skyscraper to be both universally and specifically depressing.
Based on rating 8/10
In 2016, Touché Amoré took a creative leap forward with their distinctive style of emotive post-hardcore for their fourth album, Stage Four, and vocalist Jeremy Bolm dedicated the entire album to mourning the loss of his mother to cancer. He did so with brutal honesty and detail, pouring out his grief for all the world to witness. The result was an intensely cathartic album that marked a defining moment for a band that has long been associated with intense catharsis.
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