Northeast Regional – In The Desert LP

Northeast Regional – In The Desert LP

With expressive detours, explorative arrangements, and newfound flights of fancy, the album delivers a much-needed adrenaline shot for anyone that still loves guitar-based rock music. That enduring, adventurous spirit is captured in the vast Omanian desert Morris would eventually photograph for the album cover. Have a look: it's stark, winding, and immense.

Over the course of writing, rewriting, and generally pouring over In the Desert, the band recast their previous post hardcore barrage into a more expansive and dynamic light, one crafted to utilize available space, filling it with the idiosyncratic styles of all those present.

With their triple threat of guitarmanship, this meant not needlessly layering the same parts, but rather building off of each other to employ maximum creative possibilities through restraint. This gives each song a greater shape and sense of its own terrain on In the Desert.

In this way, Northwest Regional sees the forest for the trees — sonically speaking at the risk of mixing metaphors— with a sweeping sequence sure to usher listeners through John Reis-like peaks and Revolution Summer-tinged valleys.

It’s an album for a particular point in time. It’s not necessarily a beginning or an ending. It’s the moment where you acknowledge time is limited and have to answer the question, “what are you going to do about it?”