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| Album Rating: A- |
I'm not going to pretend I was a huge 32 Leaves fan. I really liked their song "All Is Numb," but I didn't really listen to much of their other material. I may have listened to
Welcome To The Fall, their debut, once or twice, but with those few listens I never became a die-hard fan. Nor will I pretend I was devastated by the band's breakup. When they split a few months after an apparently disappointing
Panoramic (I wouldn't know), I was mildly disgruntled for a few minutes before shutting down my computer, doing something else, and forgetting 32 Leaves was no more. I also won't pretend I was immediately filled with excitement when lead singer Greg Norris announced the formation of his new band, Codec, and released the band's debut album less than a year later. Rather than eagerly snap up every single Codec released on the way to the album, I found out Norris had a new project through a Facebook ad a few weeks ago, months after the release. A bit skeptical, I listened to the new material, almost as late to the party as I had been upon discovering his former band.
