Released in 2005 on Lovitt Records.
Some bands dazzle you with their live shows, some with their recorded output, some with the artwork, others with timing and productions, but then there are other bands that just dazzle you with their members. Decahedron are such a band, in the beginning it was Shelby Cinca and Jason Hamacher just out of the disbanding of the lauded hardcore band Frodus and Joe Lally of Fugazi. Yep, that is quite a pedigree.
However by the time this album came out, three years later, in 2005 the band had lost Lally and picked up Jake Brown of Moments in Grace to fill the huge spot. While this is a pretty heavy album, it still does not live up to much of the input on their debut full length Disconnection_Immient and it definitely does not live up the standards of their previous bands. For the most part this EP was mostly forgettable and very bland, and maybe it was just a tinge more so because I know the pedigree of the band.
There are two high spots though, the opening instrumental "Movement A" is a dazzling piece of music that runs the gambit from punk and hardcore to traditional instrumental, it really showed the chops that made their previous band so legendary. The other high point is "We are the Virus", which sounded like a rallying call to arms that the band really needed to produce. However the rest of the album, while good, was not up the standards of their previous bands.
Rating - 2 1/2 out of 5
Favorite Tracks - "Movement A", "We Are The Virus"
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