Album Review: Pianos Become The Teeth - Wait For Love

If wallowing in sonic melancholy is your thing, then Wait For Love is the album for you.

The fourth from US post-hardcore outfit Pianos Become The Teeth is a technically able listen, but it's also a weighty one, with fuzzy strums and floating melodies across ten tracks that average around the five-minute mark, and which consequently tend to blur into one. It's also the second release in which singer Kyle Durfey has forsaken the raspy screamo vocal that the Baltimore five-piece began life with; his newer, more resonant tone is a welcome sound, but its overuse has tidied things up into an ordered, two-tone affair and there's not much, musically, to break it up. 

Sure, the first three tracks, including single Charisma, do rush along with some bright, angular motifs and joyous cymbal crashing underneath Durfey, who takes to these openers with a voice that has a ragged edge but is still rich and forceful without reverting to his former screech. But from there it's a slog, an almost-suffocating haze of guitars with the odd quiet moment in the crashing tide of noise. It's a dim, emotionally taxing listen that requires stamina.