by Stupid Ross

ALEXISONFIRE – CRISIS

This month at the Plop Culture camp, we have been giving Alexisonfire’s 2006 3rd studio album ‘Crisis’ a re-spin on the decks. Alexisonfire recently released their first new single in nearly 9 years ‘Familiar Drugs’ on February 15th, so to get us in the mood for new material from Ontario, Canada’s finest, we have been listening to this pioneering masterpiece. Released on August 22nd 2006, to good sales and critical reception, Crisis was named 50th greatest album of the 21st century by Kerrang! magazine. With one of the best opening tracks on an album, ‘Drunks, Lovers, Sinners and Saints’, Crisis kicks off hard and fast and doesn’t relent. Spawning two of the greatest Hardcore-Punk songs ever ‘This Could be Anywhere in The World’ and ‘Boiled Frogs’, this album showcases the talents of all members of the band, and vocalists George Pettit, Dallas Green, and Wade MacNeil share vocal duties fantastically, Dallas Green’s buttery voice balancing Pettit’s seminal growl, with McNeil’s powerful backing vocals adding the cherry on top of the cream.

If you haven’t heard Alexisonfire before, this is the album to guide you in. Arguably 2004’s ‘Watch Out!’ is their best album to date, but ‘Crisis’ is still a phenomenal record in itself. Stand out tracks (full track listing below) Drunks, This Could be Anywhere, Boiled Frogs and Rough Hands, Crisis is a must hear for all Punk, Hardcore, Rock and heavier music fans.

Crisis gets a Stupid Ross rating of 8.5/10.

1. Drunks, Lovers, Sinners, and Saints
2. This Could Be Anywhere in The World
3. Mailbox Arson
4. Boiled Frogs
5. We Are The Sound
6. You Burn First
7. We Are The End
8. Crisis
9. Keep it on Wax
10. To a Friend
11. Rough Hands

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