I saw Pears play live twice and both times I was just awed by the fantastic energy of their live show, mostly thanks to their fantastic frontman Zach Quinn. This new record contains 14 fantastic songs and Pears still outdo themselves with their combination of ferocious and fast hardcore punk mixed with melody and their New Orleans sludgy song parts. The speed, melody and catchy guitar riffs are topped with fantastic Zach˙s vocals and I am still amazed how this guy can transform from angry shouter punk to gentle melodic singer and back to screaming his guts out, with noisy and dischordant riffs suddenly becoming warm and melodic riffing, just to get back to beastly hardcore. All of the songs are just superb, but if I must choose some that would be Comfortably Dumb, Worm and Funerals. Superb album!

9/10

https://pearstheband.bandcamp.com/album/pears