
in•ter a•li•a
On their first album in 17 years, the post-hardcore band comes exploding back with dutiful performances and familiarly obtuse lyrics, but the overall impact of their style has waned.
The correct place to start with a reunion record is nostalgia, so I’ll be brief: I got At The Drive-In’s Relationship Of Command the summer I inexplicably started running cross-country, and it seemed, at the time, like a godsend, a manifestation of all the things I yearned for from hardcore and punk but couldn’t find…
Five years after they reunited, the post-hardcore legends have thrillingly rediscovered their fire.
At the Drive-In's first new album in 17 years feels like the 'difficult follow-up' to Relationship of Command which we never really needed.
For a band that imploded so spectacularly 17 years old, 'in•ter a•li•a' is all the more improbable from At the Drive-In.
At the Drive-In - in•ter a•li•a review: That's the way the toy monkey claps.