The second album by Up Hold, their first full album on Hell Hornet/Limited Records, has the band setting more comfortably in their nu metal direction, while still having the intensity their older work contained. While the instrumentalism was simpling town a little more, Tatsuya Igarashi's English lyrics were getting stronger, still maintaining that "writing music in your second or third language" abstractness but thematically becoming as uplifting as the band's name might have implied. While I haven't heard anything from their final album Deepness Of Disorder yet, to say that this is the crowning achievement of the band at this point in their career is an understatement.
As with Water, this album was simultaneously released in 12" vinyl format, but since I generally don't collect vinyls of stuff I can't get on CD, I don't have that version in my collection. There is also a digipak version of this release, and I have one coming from the lot I purchased my second copy of The Unbleached in, but it doesn't look like it has an obi. For all I know, it never had one to begin with. No matter what format you find it in, though, do get this album. I doubt you'll be disappointed with it, especially if you've followed the band this far.
The tracklisting is as follows:
1. Sight
2. Creep
3. D
4. To Be Myself
5. Thorny Path
6. Fork
7. Hue
8. The Risk
9. Rise By
10. Inside
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