"Some Breaking News" comes toward you suddenly -- "Bell Curve," "Fabled," "Tabs Taken," with arms flailing wildly and reckless intent, though there lurks a sensitive side beneath the frowned exterior. "Basement Door" shows the first real evidence here by effectively muffling the preceding dissonance with a more tuneful and well-sung approach, that while it picks up steam leading into the chorus, its overall design is a near welcome relief and outstanding delegate for first single.

Align's fallen in with some pretty impressive company during their relatively short run, particularly bands like Avail, Gameface, the typically "Emo-Core" types, though they'd have little trouble fitting in with the spike-crowned and booted anarchists among us, and blazing through tracks one to ten here it's obvious Align's is a style that sets no boundaries, offers significant commercial resistance, and weighs heavily toward the mind-over-matter principle. And here, a fitting place to lead into "Weigh Me Down," nearly an epic construct, the song embraces the unrestrained passion they've long since established half an album ago while tuning things down to a dull minor-key roar and the urgent vocals of Jeremy Jensen soon gain the foothold carrying the "weight" as it were on one of the album's highlights.

"Some Breaking News" is amplified chaos mixed with technical proficiency-a pressure-filled package of channeled aggression that'll still endure its share of growing pains but could well be on their way to reaching front-page status in the not too distant future.