______ _______ _______ ______ _____ _______ | __ \ | | | | __ \ |_| ___| | < | | | __ < | ___| proudly presents... |___|__|_______|__|_|__|______/_______|_______| ............................................................................ Artist...... First and Forever Album....... Til Death Do Us Part Label....... Adventure Cat Records Genre....... Punk Releasedate 2022-03-11 Encoder..... Bitrate..... 320kbps Size........ 42.33 mb Duration.... 17:30 WWW......... http://www.deezer.com/en/album/296634232 .Tracklist ................................................................. 01 Til Death Do Us Part [ 2:43] 02 You Would Never [ 3:59] 03 The Harder We Fall [ 3:57] 04 If There's Smoke, There's a Fire [ 3:30] 05 Sick Little Games [ 3:21] .Releasenotes .............................................................. First and Forever are drummer David Pratt, lead singer Alex Ryan, and guitarist and bassist Marcus Leopard. Ryan likes to handle the media while Leopard pens a great deal of the songs and David is "the glue that holds it all together." First and Forever returned from Los Angeles recently after spending two weeks recording tracks for 12 to 14 hours a day with producer Courtney Ballard. There's no release date for that album, which is now waiting on production and mixing, but the band's new EP, Let This Love Lie Dead, came out earlier this month. In five tracks, First and Forever shows a passion for the emo sound of the 2000s. The band manages to balance aching desperation with a sense of fun. "We're trying to bring the emo scene back," says lead singer Alex Ryan, who feels that the current scene is missing soul and honest aggression. "One More Time" kicks off the EP. It's a joyful pop-punk song with a dark twist ending reminiscent of In Love and Death from The Used. Drum fills from David Pratt are quick and interesting. They intensify leading up to choruses in "Alone in the Dark" and "In Loving Memory." Then there's Marcus Leopard, guitarist and lyricist, who blends the moods from somber distorted guitar to the melancholy, echoing riff in, "Give Me Up." The lyrics are visual: a knife in the chest, a knife in the back, a woman whose lipstick stains a neck red. It's all a glimpse into agony, into thinking about a breakup that has been dwelled upon and dissected. ............................................................................ LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLEEEEE!