It's always a shame when a heavy band releases an album with a very weak production, and such is the case with the second album from Winnipeg's Figure Four. The band plays a basic style of old school hardcore: short songs that are fast and in yo' face. The lyrics are a highlight, although they're the fairly standard posi-hardcore writings. Unfortunately the paper-thin production renders it into a state of immobility, sucking away all the power that this band probably has when they play live. Beef it up and it would be competent old school hardcore; from there, the band would need to inject some of their own touch into the songs to make any further impact.
(Facedown)Figure Four
When It's All Said and Done
BY Greg PrattPublished Aug 1, 2002