{"id":68004,"date":"2018-08-07T16:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=68004"},"modified":"2018-08-05T20:48:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T19:48:17","slug":"review-as-it-is-the-great-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-as-it-is-the-great-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: As It Is &#8211; The Great Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/254365FC-D66F-4EC8-B5BB-206FB7BD9240.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-68005\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/254365FC-D66F-4EC8-B5BB-206FB7BD9240-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\"><\/a>If <i>\u2019okay.\u2019<\/i> proved anything, it was that <b>As It Is<\/b> have far more ambition than the majority of their UK pop-punk peers. Beneath its glossy, poppy surface was a much more unnerved album, exploring the modern obsession with repressing anything remotely wrong, but even then, it didn\u2019t get the attention for its vision that it rightfully should.<\/p>\n<p>With <i>\u2018The Great Depression\u2019<\/i> then, <b>As It Is<\/b> are taking similar strides, but aiming directly for the jugular more than ever before. This is an openly darker, angrier album, firing shots at the ambivalence that much of modern society feels towards mental health issues, and attacking with due force. Snarling post-hardcore riffs dominate, while the likes of <i>\u2018The Fire, The Dark\u2019<\/i> and <i>\u2019The Stigma (Boys Don\u2019t Cry)\u2019<\/i> see Patty Walters dipping into harsher vocal territory that feels completely natural in a rawer setting (even if his nasal cleans still feel a bit out of place among it all).<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"As It Is - The Stigma [Boys Dont Cry] (Official Music Video)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SxV1Jwg9xCk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If anything, <b>As It Is<\/b> could afford to go a bit harder with their approach; what they\u2019ve got is definitely good pretty much across the board. It&#8217;s a noticeable step up from their previous material, but taking it just that step further would make it even better. There\u2019s clearly verve on <i>\u2019The Wounded World\u2019<\/i> or the confessional <i>\u2019The Truth I\u2019ll Never Tell\u2019<\/i> that&#8217;s pretty great, but with the stodgy <i>\u2019The Question, The Answer\u2019<\/i> and an utterly wasted guest turn from Under\u00f8ath\u2019s Aaron Gillespie on <i>\u2019The Reaper\u2019<\/i>, there\u2019s a distinct feeling that <b>As It Is<\/b> are unnecessarily holding themselves back from really erupting.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, <i>\u2019The Great Depression\u2019<\/i> is the sort of impressively detailed and nuanced album that\u2019s well within <b>As It Is<\/b>\u2019 wheelhouse, but rarely gets acknowledged to the extent it should. Hopefully, this could be what changes that, blessed with extra force and grit that can maintain a significant mainstream presence, while nudging themselves in the right direction to do more exciting things.<\/p>\n<p>3.5\/5<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8216;The Great Depression&#8217;<\/i> by <b>As It Is<\/b> is released on 10th August on <b>Fearless Records<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>As It Is<\/b> links: <a href=\"https:\/\/asitisofficial.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/asitisofficial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/asitisofficial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/asitisofficial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by Luke Nuttall (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuttall_luke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@nuttall_luke<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8216;The Great Depression&#8217; is impressively detailed and nuanced album that\u2019s well within As It Is\u2019 wheelhouse&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":68005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[4319,2347,39,15360],"class_list":["post-68004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-review","tag-as-it-is","tag-fearless-records","tag-the-great-depression"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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