A Static Lullaby is a band that has been climbing the popularity ranks over the past few years, and seems to have developed quite a following. Despite their growing fandom, I had never heard them prior to this release.

I haven't avoided them, per se, it is just that the wave of screamo/post-hardcore that has been gaining steam over the past few years has never caught on with me. I just have a hard time getting into this style, and at times it has caused me to wonder if I'm just getting too old and the music world is leaving me behind. Then I think, nah, I just haven't found the right band yet. Unfortunately, after listening to this self-titled album the search continues.

The band has definitely had a rough year. Following the success of And Don't Forget to Breathe the band left Ferret records hoping to score on a larger scale. What followed was Faso Latido, which was not met with all that much enthusiasm. Their following did continue to grow as they went on tours with the likes of As I Lay Dying, My Chemical Romance, Underoath, and Killswitch Engage. The bad luck did not go away, as they were dropped by their label, and suffered the loss of three of their band members. Two of them left under, what I have read, to be rather ugly conditions, while the third went back to school.

Lead vocalist Joe Brown and vocalist/guitarist Dan Arnold soldiered on. They found new band members to fill the shoes of those that left, and signed a new record deal with Fearless Records. The end result of their perseverance is this self-titled collection of melodic post-hardcore, angst filled ragers. I salute them in their determination in keeping the band moving forward in the face of what seems to have been near insurmountable odds.

After listening A Static Lullaby through a couple of times, I have found a few cuts that are downright infectious, but otherwise they do not really stand out from the crowd. At times it sounded like the same song was repeating itself a couple of times. A problem that is not specific to these guys, but something I have encountered in many of these screamo styled acts.