The Blood Brothers: Crimes : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone

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Seattle screamo outfit the Blood Brothers are known for their ferocious live show, but, for their fourth album, they wanted to make music that wouldn't wear them out on the road. Crimes offers slightly less larynx-endangering wailing than 2003's Burn Piano Island, Burn, but it still brims with enough rhythmic diversity and vocal gymnastics that the group is going to need a long rest after its upcoming tour. "Feed Me to the Forest" creeps in on tepid, angular, Hives-like guitar before co-frontmen Johnny Whitney and Jordan Blilie ravage their tracheas. Later the Brothers show their pop sensibilities as jangly guitars back "My First Kiss at the Public Execution," before the breakdown bleeds from their tortured cacophony. In their continued push at diversity, the Blood Brothers commit no artistic offense.