Search - 32 Leaves :: Welcome to the Fall

One of the best albums I've listened to this year

D. White | 09/20/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

""Welcome to the Fall" by 32 Leaves is a great album. I'm very pleased with it and glad that I decided to buy it after hearing these guys on PureVolume. I would have never heard of them if it hadn't been for their homepage spot on PureVolume that made me click on them and have a listen. Kudos to the band for having the entire album up on PureVolume available for preview through streaming so that you could really see what you were getting. To me that displays some confidence in their material, which they should rightly have. It's true, these guys do sound quite a bit like a few different bands at different times (A Perfect Circle, Ra, Deftones, to name a few) but they do have a sound of their own. I was a bit disappointed that when i received the CD there was a sticker on the front announcing "For Fans of A Perfect Circle, Deftones and Failure". I made the conclusion that these guys did have some familiarities to those bands which I love before I got the sticker, but I thought it was kind of wrong to bias the new listener into thinking these guys are another knockoff of APC or Deftones, because they most certainly aren't. I will admit though that they do have many similarities to APC (vocals and bass lines most notably). The songs on this album are quite diverse yet meld together nicely to form an ambient mixture of progressive and alternative rock music. Most of the songs on the album (with the exception of the last one) contain fast, driving rhythms behind some great vocals. This album is also very accesible : I found myself singing along to many of the songs on the first listen and after many listens have even found myself obliged to have this on as background music while driving or studying, even when I wasn't fully paying attention. Overall, if you do like A Perfect Circle you will most likely like 32 Leaves as well as long as you listen to them with an open mind and aren't trying to compare the two bands because they are both different in their own ways. Pick up this album if you want to hear some good rock music from a rising band."

A nice contrast, especially with the Vocals!

Seth FM | Denver, Co. | 05/03/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"In a music scene that seems flooded with nonstop screaming over melodicism in the vocal department, it is a breath of fresh air to hear a band like 32 Leaves. The music is heavy but with a definite emphasis on cleaner vocals from singer Greg Norris, which I feel tends to give the music a more diverse approach. Don't get me wrong, I'm also a fan of many bands that utilize "screaming" or "hardcore vocals" but sometimes it's nice to hear it intersperced with some melodic deliveries. The best tracks to demonstrate 32 Leaves' overall sound would probably be either Blood On My Hands or All Is Numb. The only problem with this album is that they are relatively unknown and the distribution of the album is poor, so your best bet is to order it online. I would definitly recommend it to anyone looking for heavy, melodic hard rock!"

Awesome CD

Eric Bruch | M.Beach, SC | 02/04/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This music is great. I got into this band directly after my Allele phase. I still like both bands a lot though my mood will depend on which I want to mellow out to."