Track List­ing:

1. Lethal Killers
2. Rabble **
3. The Catalyst **
4. Tighter Noose **
5. Wait­ing to Panic **
6. Hunt­ing (The Uni­verse Breaks My Heart) **
7. Armed To The Teeth
8. Sooner Or Later **
9. Sail­ing Seas
10. Renegade
11. Maybe Then Someday
12. Good­bye Song **

**Clear Favorites

In any case, the music coming through my speak­ers from this album had a different-​but-​same feel as the first one. I’ve come to the con­clu­sion that Tommy Walter has a per­sonal beef with soci­eties cur­rent bell-​curve. I’m not here to say whether he is right or wrong but I will say that his music, and each song in them­selves, con­tains strong emo­tion and focus on their message(s). In the end, the CD tends to have some­what of a darker feel to it, and I’m sure it’s safe to say that none of the songs will really make you feel warm and fuzzy inside. In the end my favorite cut is “Goodbye Song” which is fan­tas­tic through its 6+ min­utes of audible-​deliciousnes, and makes fin­ishes the album off on a strong, solid note.

The music comes through excep­tion­ally lay­ered, and gone are the 1950 public-​service voices from the first album. A new (or at the very least more notice­able) usage if the cello is a wel­come addi­tion to the music, and used well. All the songs have pow­er­ful emo­tion that can be felt through­out the obvi­ous care given to (almost) all of the songs, though some of them feel a little unfin­ished or at the very least unpol­ished. If I had to com­pare this album to its pre­de­ces­sor I would end up pick­ing the former, though it’s a hard choice. There just seems to be more tracks on Human­is­tic that do it for me that Armed to the Teeth just doesn’t quite do.

It may be moody and it may be a little dark, but this is a solid album that you should listen to.

8/10