w/ Sleeping With Sirens, Tonight Alive, Hands Like Houses
Oct 12 - Pomona, CA @ The Glasshouse
Oct 13 - San Diego, CA @ SOMA
Oct 14 - Mesa, AZ @ Nile Theater
Oct 17 - Dallas, TX @ The Door
Oct 18 - San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit
Oct 19 - Houston, TX @ Warehouse
Oct 21 - Nashville, TN @ Rockettown
Oct 23 - Orlando, FL @ Plaza Live
Oct 24 - Ft Lauderdale, FL @ Culture Room
Oct 25 - St Petersburg, FL @ The State Theater
Oct 26 - Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
Oct 27 - Greensboro, NC @ Greene Street Club
Oct 28 - Baltimore, MD @ The Recher Theater
Oct 30 - Philadelphia, PA @ Theater of Living Arts
Oct 31 - Albany, NY @ Northern Lights
Nov 2 - Worcester, MA @ Palladium
Nov 3 - Montreal, QC @ Corona Theatre (w/ Sleeping With Sirens, Tonight Alive, & I Am King)
Nov 4 - Toronto, ON @ Opera House (w/ Sleeping With Sirens, Tonight Alive, & I Am King)
Nov 6 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theater
Nov 7 - Cleveland, OH @ House Of Blues
Nov 8 - Pontiac, MI @ Crofoot
Nov 9 - Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
Nov 10 - Minneapolis, MN @ Cabooze
Nov 12 - Denver, CO @ The Summit Music Hall
Nov 14 - Salt Lake City, UT @ In The Venue
Nov 16 - Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
Nov 17 - Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
Nov 18 - Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades
Nov 20 - San Francisco, CA @ Slims
Nov 21 - Los Angeles, CA @ House of Blues
Nov 23 - Las Vegas, NV @ Hard Rock Cafe - Strip

Sleeping with Sirens’ sophomore album comes out tomorrow, and Alex and I managed to get our dirty little paws on it, thanks to publicist Mike Cubillos of Earshot Media. Let’s Cheer to This is a bit of a different sound from the Billboard-topping With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear, however, and it may not be a bad thing.

Major cutie Kellin Quinn’s voice, for one, is not as high as it was on the last album. Let’s Cheer to This has a more angsty taste with voice dominating the sound waves more so than music. For loves of the post-hardcore genre, it’s pretty much what you love and revel in. For others, however, it may be a bit too much yelling. The album features less screamo elements than the last, yet they are nevertheless present on nearly every track. Let’s Cheers to This is serious just as With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear was, but this time it sounds more disillusioned, more like growing up.

The album displays emotions of anger and disappointment, most notably with the father-son angst track, “A Trophy Father’s Trophy Son”. Yet a few songs are more upbeat than the others such as the 17-year-old-heartbreak-nostalgia “If You Can’t Hang” and the drum-driven youth anthem “Do It Now Remember It Later”. These faster, more positive tracks, along with the acoustic love song “All My Heart”, pepper an otherwise cynical and angst-ridden album. The lyrics show depth and personally intrigue me, and I can definitely see people loving them because they relate. The music itself shows just how the band has improved and expanded its abilities. Sleeping with Sirens is a young band which much promise and has proved that it can change, grow and develop. They have some ways to go in terms of being among the biggest, but their following, growth as artists and a band, and their talent shows they have the potential to get there.
Songs to Listen to: “Postcards and Polaroids”, “Your Nickel Ain’t Worth My Dime”, “All My Heart”, “Do It Now Remember It Later”


-Syjil Ashraf