The Carrier - No Love Can Save Me

'No Love Can Save Me' is a quick, short look into what is to come from the Boston area hardcore band, The Carrier. 'No Love Can Save Me' is a 3 song successor to their first full-length, 'One Year Later' put out on Rock Vegas. This is The Carrier's first release on Deathwish Inc. and a potential prelude to come.

The Carrier is one of the many bands that is on the passionate melodic hardcore kick that many bands are finding suitable right now. It seems that you are either heavy, fast and violent, or you're a melodic sound wave of aggression right now in hardcore, and that is where we are.

The Carrier has the advantage of having chosen this style before some other bands have adapted it to their own, and anyone who has heard 'One Year Later' can expect what is on this EP. It is slow, it is fast, it's always passionate and sometimes epic sounding. The Carrier is a band that obviously wants their lyrics and message heard. The instrumentation often feels like an emphasis to the lyrics rather than the vocals feeling like an after thought like many bands of the genre. A welcome breath of fresh air into a genre full of stagnation.

There is not a lot of content on this EP, but what is there is pretty decent. The last track in particular sticks out, 'Epilogue: Forgivness' is a track packed with a very powerful ending that can surmise the feeling that you get from the tone of The Carrier's music... 'Forgive me destiny, this world has fucking destroyed me/this world has ruined your plans for me'. It is a hopelessness that isn't damning. It is not music that is wanting to drag you down with it, it's an anthem that is pushing you to overcome.

'No Love Can Save Me' is a powerful inbetween step for The Carrier and worthy your curiosity. Check it out.

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