Always Foreign

On their vital, bristling third LP, the band is at their most concise and vitriolic. Their songwriting suggests the world is an increasingly terrible place and we should all be scared to death.

The Philadelphia seven-piece turn in a refined third record.

You can think of them as the Arcade Fire of oddball "post-emo," a hyper-niche that the verbosely named the World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am...

The World is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die is a band that specializes in facilitating catharsis.