This thing may be labeled as an EP, but I
guarantee that this soup eats like a meal. At just under twenty
minutes, This Ship Will Sink's self-titled EP is about the same
length as many full-length records these days, but the band cram
so many musical ideas into this relatively short span of time that
after listening to the whole thing straight through you almost feel
like you've made it through a double album. There are so many riffs,
so many time changes, so many crazed fast parts and so many moody
breakdowns constantly blindsiding me as I spin this disc that I
just can't keep up, though This Ship Will Sink never resort to cheesy
techniques like radical time changes, super-technical metallic parts
or calculated shifts between very loud and very quiet parts to generate
this feeling in the listener. This just seems like a group that
may well have too many ideas for their own good; fleshed out, there's
probably enough material on this self-titled disc to fill up five
albums of conventional metallic hardcore, but instead This Ship
Will Sink have opted to create one of the most brilliantly crazed
screamo-ish records you are likely to hear for some time to come.
