MOVEMENTS - No Good Left To Give LP (Clear With Black & White Smoke Vinyl)

Label: Fearless

When Movements formed, vocalist Patrick Miranda was just 19. That’s an undeniably tender age, but the singer was nevertheless able to articulate deep ideas about the state of his mental health, channelling his wrecked emotions Feel Something, the California band’s acclaimed and accomplished 2017 debut album. Now 24, Patrick is no less scared of baring his soul on this follow-up. Recorded with producer du jour Will Yip (La Dispute, Panic! At The Disco, Code Orange), No Good Left To Give demonstrates how much the band – completed by guitarist Ira George, drummer Spencer York and bassist Austin Cresey – have evolved since that debut was released.

As with their first album, No Good left To Give finds strength in weakness. It doesn’t necessarily make good of a bad situation, because the bad stuff is very much present and live in these songs here, but it shows that the void and the emptiness is not necessarily all-encompassing – that, however hard at times it may be to remember this, there is always hope.