By Victoria Figueiredo and Sven Haugen / Contributing Writer
Post-hardcore frontrunners Circa Survive will be playing at Fort Lauderdale’s Revolution Live Wednesday, December 10th along with hardcore outfits Title Fight and Pianos Become the Teeth. The tour is in promotion of Circa’s most recent album “Descensus,” which hit stores November 24th.
Speaking on the new album, front man Anthony Green said that every song they wrote and recorded “just got crazy tension put on it… it’s the most aggressive Circa record we’ve ever made. It’s the first record of ours I’ve been able to listen to front to back without having that song that I’m like ‘yeah, I could’ve done better here.’”
Circa Survive is known for having an electrifying live performance that the band uses as a catharsis to express emotions that can’t be articulated verbally alone. Watching them onstage, one can easily discern how much the music that they play means to them, which makes it all the more easy to appreciate and enjoy.
Opening for Circa Survive is Title Fight, a band whose genre can’t be pinned down because it’s been in constant evolution since their inception. Starting with a sort of fast, youthfully energetic punk, the Kingston, Pennsylvania foursome has transitioned to a more shoegazey alt-rock sound over the course of their almost twelve year long career.
Title Fight’s live performances can be described as nothing less than breathtaking, so much so that one of the co-authors of this article shed tears the last time they saw them live (which they flew to Philadelphia to do). If one could call Circa Survive’s music emotive, then a word does not exist to describe the music of Title Fight, as it embodies a kind of sincerity not typically found in a scene rife with derivative shows of emotion and baseless attempts at honesty.
Pianos Become the Teeth play a slow screamo style of post-hardcore with just as much feeling packed into it as anyone on this bill. Adding onto a long tradition of heartfelt emo bands, playing alongside such legends as La Dispute, Tigers Jaw, Balance and Composure, and having previously toured with Circa Survive and Title Fight respectively, Pianos Become the Teeth are making a name for themselves by providing a bright future to the emo revival movement that is currently sweeping the alternative rock community.
All in all, tears will be shed and feelings will be felt this Wednesday night. Don’t miss out on bearing witness to one of the greatest tours to stop by South Florida in recent years; the regret would be killer.
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