Silverstein — Arrivals & Departures

The screamo thing has been done to death by now, but if you insist on listening to this kind of clatter, you could do a lot worse than Burlington, Ont.'s Silverstein. Their recent Arrivals & Departures follows the loud/quiet/loud template, yet manages to interject some serious vocal gravity thanks to lead singer Shane Told. His boyish vocals stand in stark contrast to the brutish attack behind him, and it's that contrast that truly allows Silverstein to succeed where other similar acts fail. Check lead single "Sound Of The Sun" if you need hard proof that you can simultaneously be loud, obnoxious, ugly and sensitive, sometimes within the very same stanza.