Let It Enfold You by Senses Fail

Let It Enfold You, Senses Fail's debut album, hit the shelves on Vagrant on September 7, 2004, two years after the Ridgewood, New Jersey crew turned heads with the From the Depths of Dreams EP. Steve Evetts produced it, cutting most of it at several New Jersey studios in April 2003 and topping it up late that year, and it's mall-punk catharsis done right: Buddy Nielsen lurching between a pleading croon and a throat-shredding scream, Garrett Zablocki and Dave Miller's guitars churning, Mike Glita's bass and Dan Trapp's drums hammering underneath. Poetry and literature fed a lot of the lyrics, which gives all that emo and screamo melodrama a bookish streak.

Critics were split, some zeroing in on Nielsen's voice, others calling the music derivative, but the kids didn't care: it went gold, and the band has since played it front to back in 2014, 2015, 2021 and 2024.

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