The Always Open Mouth

2006 studio album by Fear Before The March of Flames

Studio album by

Fear Before The March of Flames

Released

September 19, 2006

Recorded

April–May 2006

Studio

Johnny Cab Studios, The Tank

Genre

Post-hardcore, experimental rock

Length

46:03

Label

Equal Vision^[1]

Producer

Bobby Darling^[2]

Fear Before The March of Flames chronology

Art Damage
(2004)

The Always Open Mouth
(2006)

Fear Before
(2008)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AbsolutePunk	(95%)^[3]
Alternative Press	^[4]
The A.V. Club	C^[2]
Drowned in Sound	8/10^[5]
Kerrang!	^{[citation needed]}
Punknews.org	^[6]

The Always Open Mouth is the third full-length album by the post-hardcore band Fear Before the March of Flames, released in September 2006.^[7]

Critical reception

Drowned in Sound called the album "a complex and matured experimental punk record that is both ravishingly beautiful and jaw-droppingly massive in one fouler-than-foul swoop."^[5] PopMatters wrote that "although a valiant effort, The Always Open Mouth is, more or less, an amalgam of separate ideas, none of which seem to pan out."^[8]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Absolute Future"	1:06
2.	"Drowning the Old Hag"	2:54
3.	"Mouth"	3:32
4.	"Taking Cassandra to the End of the World Party"	2:44
5.	"Ten Seconds in Los Angeles"	2:20
6.	"The Waiting Makes Me Curious"	4:48
7.	"High as a Horse"	2:37
8.	"Dog Sized Bird"	2:14
9.	"Complete and Utter Confusion..."	2:19
10.	"...As a Result of Signals Being Crossed"	4:02
11.	"My (Fucking) Deer Hunter"	4:11
12.	"Lycanthropy"	3:07
13.	"A Brief Tutorial in Bachanalia"	4:36
14.	"A Gift for Fiction"	2:19
15.	"Absolute Past"	3:07

Personnel

David Marion – lead vocals
Adam Fisher – lead guitar, clean vocals, keyboards, programming, piano, percussion
Zachary Hutchings – rhythm guitar, percussion
Michael Madruga – bass, backing vocals, percussion
Brandon Proff – drums, percussion, programming, layout and design

Additional

Anthony Green – additional vocals on track 11
Jeremy Fisher – additional vocals on track seven
Ryan Smith (Sterling Sound) – mastering
Bobby Darling – producer
Casey Bates – engineering and mixing

References

^ "FEAR BEFORE THE MARCH OF FLAMES 'THE ALWAYS OPEN MOUTH' VINYL". Equal Vision Records. December 25, 2016.
^ ^a ^b "The Always Open Mouth: Fear Before The March Of Flames". Music. 14 November 2006.
^ "chorus.fm". chorus.fm--AbsolutePunk.
^ "Fear Before The March Of Flames". Alternative Press. December 6, 2006.
^ ^a ^b "Album Review: Fear Before The March Of Flames - The Always Open Mouth". DrownedInSound. Archived from the original on 2020-10-10. Retrieved 2020-10-06.
^ "Fear Before - The Always Open Mouth". www.punknews.org. 19 September 2006.
^ "Fear Before the March of Flames | Biography & History". AllMusic.
^ "Fear Before the March of Flames: The Always Open Mouth". PopMatters. November 20, 2006.