The Always Open Mouth

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The Always Open Mouth
Alwaysopenmouth.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 19, 2006
RecordedApril–May 2006
StudioJohnny Cab Studios, The Tank
Genre Post-hardcore, experimental rock
Length46:03
Label Equal Vision [1]
Producer Bobby Darling [2]
Fear Before The March of Flames chronology
Art Damage
(2004)
The Always Open Mouth
(2006)
Fear Before
(2008)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AbsolutePunk (95%) [3]
Alternative Press Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The A.V. Club C [2]
Drowned in Sound 8/10 [5]
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Punknews.orgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [6]

The Always Open Mouth is the third full-length album by the post-hardcore band Fear Before the March of Flames, released in September 2006. [7]

Contents

Critical reception

Drowned in Sound called the album "a complex and matured experimental punk record that is both ravishingly beautiful and jaw-droppingly massive in one fouler-than-foul swoop." [5] PopMatters wrote that "although a valiant effort, The Always Open Mouth is, more or less, an amalgam of separate ideas, none of which seem to pan out." [8]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Absolute Future"1:06
2."Drowning the Old Hag"2:54
3."Mouth"3:32
4."Taking Cassandra to the End of the World Party"2:44
5."Ten Seconds in Los Angeles"2:20
6."The Waiting Makes Me Curious"4:48
7."High as a Horse"2:37
8."Dog Sized Bird"2:14
9."Complete and Utter Confusion..."2:19
10."...As a Result of Signals Being Crossed"4:02
11."My (Fucking) Deer Hunter"4:11
12."Lycanthropy"3:07
13."A Brief Tutorial in Bachanalia"4:36
14."A Gift for Fiction"2:19
15."Absolute Past"3:07

Personnel

Additional personnel

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