Misadventures

Breakneck, intricate and achingly passionate, <i>Misadventures</i> is opera-like skate punk. The four-year break since <i>Collide With the Sky</i> seems to have only made the band more ambitious, giving rise to multi-part song-suites that balance delicate rhythmic turns with hardcore breakdowns, and prettiness with breathless aggression. Most striking, in a way, is when the band settles into a lower gear, like on the uplifting “Bedless” or bittersweet “Floral & Fading”, where vocalist Victor Fuentes tones down his scream to confess, “Together we can fake our own death here/Just wanna be alone and watch as you all just disappear.”