And while to an extent this may come with the territory for a band like Pierce The Veil – a good percentage of the Warped Tour scene seems to be built around rehashing ideas, after all – it makes for an experience that’s less compelling overall.
The most obvious one is probably the familiarity at all – while it’s subjective whether this is a negative at all, most of Misadventures seems to be treading the same ground as four years ago. And while its mistakes are easy to spot, they’re not album-breaking in magnitude. Because while it can’t quite reach the heady heights of Collide With The Sky, Misadventures shows that, even after their extended period of time away, Pierce The Veil still have that spark and knack for polished, relatively interesting post-hardcore. But with Misadventures finally dropping, has the wait been worth it? With a recording process frequently brought to a halt thanks to everything from extensive touring schedules to bouts of inter-band depression, it seemed as though the album was due to slink further and further into myth. It’s led to the excitement for their much-delayed fourth album Misadventures reaching almost excruciating levels for their ever-expanding fanbase, but it’s not been for nothing. After 2012’s Collide With The Sky turned out better than really anyone expected, the San Diegan quartet’s rise was stratospheric, leapfrogging the vast majority of their peers and seeing Vic Fuentes becoming president elect of the Warped Tour scene.
Misadventures is the first Pierce The Veil album that really has something riding on it.
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