The excellently-named I Can Hear Myself Levitate has dropped a new EP, A City Submerged. While it does retain elements of the radio-friendly rock mashup sound I reviewed so favorably last May, ICHML has pushed its own boundaries in song construction since their last outing.

These four tunes skew much more toward a tension-filled post-hardcore (a la the soon-to-be-broken up The Felix Culpa). Even though the band has largely eschewed traditional v/c/v song structure (or at least masked it quite well), the poppier moments of the sound like the artier moments of AFI’s more recent albums. Opener “Saints and Converts” takes familiar sounds and spins them in delightfully unexpected ways, playing with audience expectations. “Empires” employs a similar tactic, although it does ratchet up to a huge ending with a whoa-oh male chorus. But by that point, it’s what you want to hear!

If you’re not into the emo/punk/post-hardcore sound ca. 2000-2006, you aren’t the audience for I Can Hear Myself Levitate. If you did come of age on dime-a-dozen emo/punk bands, you’ll love A City Submerged. At four tunes and 14 minutes, it’s exactly the right length to enjoy legitimately and fully (nostalgically or currently) without losing interest. I Can Hear Myself Levitate, like A Road to Damascus, is a band that reminds me why played-out sounds became overdone in the first place: when done well, those sounds can light me up with adrenaline.

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Hey Everyone! Well, we are going to keep this update simple and to the point. Garrett Gaylada & Jay Lovell took a vacation trip to L.A. & Hawaii. Jay will probably do a video update from his trip; not only to visit family, but to line up some shows down there for ICHML who will be making the trip in the Summer to take A mini-vacation to get some sun and to just hang out.

A City Submerged is getting close to being finished. We have some solid songs and still fine tuning idea’s to tie everything together. We unleashed one new song the last two shows to test it out with everyone and the response has been overwhelming! Still working on a Recording & Release Date for this E.P. Some Inside information of the underlining Stories this e.p. will showcase.

Our sophomore EP, A City Submerged, will showcase more of the rich, rhythmic layers and dark energy of What Is Left but with a more mature conceptual-unity throughout. Scheduled for a late-spring release, A City Submerged tells the story of a city’s demise brought on by a leader’s lack of dignity, morality and selflessness. Filling-out our lineup with two new members has allowed us to further explore the combination of subtle and explosive dynamics, avant-garde structures and wall-of-sound crescendos to create an album that is driven, mature and polished, yet so very raw.              

-Brad McQuade

We have been busy behind the scene’s working/networking & building a team behind us for future Promotional Work for Our New Material. Crystal Gonzalez & Adam Rosenthal our some photographer’s you should def. get a hold of if your looking for live performance shots.

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http://crystalgonzalez.smugmug.com/

So keep on checking in here at our Blog for Updates. Next Big show is with The Felix Culpa & The Fireship @ MoJoes of Joliet.

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