Album Info

In Some Way, Shape, or Form. (Deluxe Version)

Alternative - 2011

With its fourth studio album, Four Year Strong took a big risk in eliminating synthesizers and keyboards from its songs,... more

Tracklist

1

The Infected

3:17 min
2

The Security of the Familiar, The Tranquility of Repetition

3:28 min
3

Stuck In the Middle

3:36 min
4

Just Drive

3:29 min
5

Fairweather Fan

3:30 min
6

Sweet Kerosene

3:21 min
7

Falling On You

3:33 min
8

Heaven Wasn't Built to Hold Me

3:05 min
9

Unbreakable

3:12 min
10

Bring On the World

3:12 min
11

Fight the Future

3:04 min
12

Only the Meek Get Pinched. The Bold Survive

3:51 min

About In Some Way, Shape, or Form. (Deluxe Version)

With its fourth studio album, Four Year Strong took a big risk in eliminating synthesizers and keyboards from its songs, in a bid to alter and mature its musical style. In Some Way, Shape or Form is the Worcester, Mass., band’s first recording without its ivory-tickling bandmate Josh Lyford. The results successfully abound, with a meatier-sounding band playing noticeably heavier songs. “The Infected” opens with fist-punching guitar riffs chugging along a flawless rhythm section that pumps like an external combustion engine under Dan O'Connor’s muscled vocal performance. Check out the tough-as-nails guitar lead that kickstarts “The Security of the Familiar, the Tranquility of Repetition”—then it unfolds into a dynamic rock ‘n’ roll song with the band’s penchant for soaring melodic choruses. “Just Drive” is a salient single where every element of the song is catchy. Just try getting that contagious guitar melody or O'Connor’s intensely impassioned singing out of your memory lobe.