Deviates employ every measure of the highly-influential and main stage form of Power/Punk, harmony and a few tweaks of the knob to go with a Metal scrape now and again -- where've we heard this before? San Francisco might be a good place to start but maybe So. Cal's more the norm, yet in any instance Deviates aren't ready to be filed away with the rest of the "almost isn't enough" mid-tempo models ripping yet another page out of the Bad Religion bible or kidnapping the Offspring again for kicks. They've got a knack for mixing things up in such a way where what you expect to happen, happens but not in an obvious way. Case in point, "One in Ten," slugging guitar opening, predictable verse and here we go again... well not quite... something cuts the wire and all of a sudden joyousness gets jettisoned through the window in favor of awkwardness and quick shift changes!

Angry youth tempered by faith healing and the end result, an easily digestible piece of post-Hardcore posturing signaling the start of something exciting, a little unsettling and success, railed by a few avoidable road blocks, still potentially a short distance away for a surprisingly young band two albums in.