La Dispute are painfully emo: the strangled shouting, the talking, the abortive screams. But the album from which this song is taken is incredibly compelling. It's been my soundtrack for walking and U-Bahning around Berlin, my inner-head background humming for drinking in bars, the counter-tone to the creaking of the snow under my shoes. The record is very well crafted: it has a symmetry to it that had formerly only been achieved by Circle Takes the Square, and there is an unusual elegance to the shifts from youth crew to spoken-word to beat-down to space rock.