Shoreline –  have released their new album ‘Is This The Low Point Or The Moment After?’ & the track Brittle Bond

Emo punk/hardcore outfitSHORELINEhave released their new album, Is This The Low Point Or The Moment After? on Pure Noise Records.

“Someone in an interview compared the record and its flow to the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance” says singer Hansol Seung.  “It fascinates me that I haven’t seen this parallel myself before. I think we’ve unintentionally written a record about grief, that is still more hopeful than bitter.” 

Along with the album, is track Brittle Bond.  A song which explores looking at friendships that were made in formative years and that have now moved on in different directions, and now accepting and finding peace with the circumstance.

Is This The Low Point Or The Moment After? is a concept album that dares the listener to recall the situations in life when you’ve hit rock bottom and consider if you were able to point out the moment from which things got better again? SHORELINE also ask themselves this question and dedicate an entire album to it.  Their new songs undoubtedly propel the band from Münster to the peak of their creative powers: emo and hardcore meet a newfound passion for alternative rock, smart songwriting, and lyrics that go where it hurts.

“There’s a very clear turning point within this album for me – the lowpoint – if you will, from which the mood and songs start to become more hopeful. When I showed the record to our closest friends, everyone told me a different part that they’ve very clearly identified as the(ir) low point. I think that is in equal parts funny but also beautiful.” says Hansol Seung

While its soundscape is very clearly growing from the new wave of emo/HC bands such as One Step Closer, Arm’s Length Or Koyo, it has unmissable references from the unique clash of alternative music scenes in Germany. 

Is This The Low Point Or The Moment After? is showing off a band that has a very clear vision of what kind of music they wanted to write. Big melodies, heavy riffs, but all rooted in a raw, honest take from a DIY Punk perspective.

Is This The Low Point Or The Moment After? 
Worry Count
Brittle Bond
Sweet Spot
Forgive ( Feat. Joe Taylor)
Paradox Man
Synchronize
Out Of Touch
Good Times
Youthfully Naive
Phantom Pain

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