The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me

Description Amazon.com Brand New have specialized in pain ever since the pop-punk emo-rape of their 2001 debut release Your Favorite Weapon.

But they've outdone themselves on The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me.

If the songs on Weapon were paper cuts, the ones here are gaping chainsaw wounds, full of seismic, howling agony.

The moody rumbles of 2003's Deja Entendu were pointing here, but this is something else, with Mogwai-level dynamic range and tracks that careen from introspection to fury and back again.

Lyrically, lead singer Jesse Lacey's words remain excruciating and harrowing things, but that's nothing new.

It's the music propping them up which gives this effort such depth and punch.