Concrete Jungle [The OST]



Concrete Jungle [The OST] was released in 2024

Track Listing:
1. C:\Projects\CJOST\BEATDEATH
2. V.A.N
3. The Drain
4. Terms & Conditions
5. Hedonist (Recharged)
6. Even
7. Loading Screen
8. Anything > Human
9. Digital Footprint
10. Nervous System

11. C:\Projects\CJOST\FINDPEACE
12. Artificial Suicide (Unzipped)
13. The Grey (Unzipped)
14. The Death of Peace of Mind (We Are Fury Patch)
15. The Death of Peace of Mind (So Wylie Patch)
16. Bad Decisions (Lofi)
17. Just Pretend (Credits)

18. C:\Projects\CJOST\CLEARMIND
19. Artificial Suicide (Live 2024)
20. Like a Villain (Live 2024)
21. The Grey (Live 2024)
22. What do you want from me? (Live 2024)
23. Nowhere To Go (Live 2024)
24. V.A.N (Live 2024)
25. The Death of Peace of Mind (Live 2024)
26. Just Pretend (Live 2024)

Genre: Metalcore

Concrete Jungle is a weird one.  1 part new songs, 1 part remixes and 1 part live album.  Its a bit of a mess but there's some quality here.  

BEATDEATH is considered "new songs" but there's a remix of Hedonist and clips Artificial Suicide in Terms & Conditions so?  Either way, this is the meat of the album.  Songs like VAN and The Drain are excellent.  

Whats more interesting is they really toned down Noah's vocals and relied on guests.  Sure Even and Digital Footprint are solely Bad Omens, but everything else is sang by mostly by guests or Noah plays a backup role.

Not everything here is great.  Terms & Conditions is particularly weak and even Wargasm can't 100% save Hedonist.

FINDPEACE is the remixes section.  I'm not the biggest fan of remixes and these aren't great.  Artificial Suicide does not work at double speed, The Grey lost all emotion with the pitch shift.

We Are Fury's "patch" of TDOPOM is better than So Wylie's, the electronic breakdown is kind of cool.  So Wylie went the pitch shift route and it sounds like shit.

The last 2 feature other singers tackling the songs with middling success.  Bad Decisions works well, but the original is much better.  Just Pretend is meh.  The singer here doesn't do a very good rendition. 

CLEARMIND is the live album portion.  All live cuts from TDOPOM (and VAN from here).  Mostly good, my only real complaint is that Noah's vocals lose some of their subtlety in the live setting but otherwise it's all good.  VAN is the standout, but again, it all translates well.

2 green and 5 red, this is a weird one.  I'd probably say 3 for new songs, 2 for remixes and 4 for live.  So average it out and we get:

3/5

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