The Redemption Song is enjoyable and NOT the same as everything else. Plays Dead in Stereo is loose, intense, catchy, and fast, with urgency. It's brutally aggressive, anthemic (although not overdone), energetic, and a great batch of metallic hardcore with a lot of punk stomping. Imagine this; a kind of music that is always moving, that's totally danceable, and is "teeth grinding." Bands like Showbread, The Refused, AFI, and Comeback Kid sound somewhat similar to TRS, yet at the same time TRS isn't a shadow of these bands. Playing their own style that adds many different hooks and themes from various types of music (for example: breakdown punk, oi punk) the band is fronted by an anthemic and aggressive hardcore styling that is somewhat metallic. TRS is a Christian band and although their meshing of lyrics is catered to the circles outside of Christian music. The songs are truthful and very relevant; talking about how easily people can get hurt, about sticking together, struggles that people will face, and showing that there is a deeper meaning to life.
What Plays Dead in Stereo isn't: It is not your run of the mill screamo, it's not a drippy and sappy alternative to intense hardcore, and it's not a copycat.
What Plays Dead in Stereo is: It is fun, danceable/moshable, energetic, intense, impressive, and something that'll knock people off of their feet, something that's like a breath of fresh air, that's necessary, and will get people moving in one way or another.
4.5 tocks
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