It's safe to say that Unfashion are a band who are currently leading the way for an ever growing legion of Brazilian new-metal fans and bands, and now with almost 4 years of hard work taking shape in the form of the bands debut album, "Emotional Kids Play Alone", the group have managed to finally follow up their fairly successful self-titled demo, which managed to grab the attention of artists such as Igor Cavalera of Sepultura and Aaron Lewis of Staind. If the aforementioned demo was anything to be excited about, this album then should be placed upon a pedestal, as the music has matured tremendously, getting twice as aggressive and, overall, more pleasant to the ears thanks to its more developed production - definitely impressive when it comes to Brazil's standards for independent bands.

If bands such as Crazy Town and Dislocated Styles are what perfectly exemplify on what point the rapcore genre currently is, I suppose we'd have to quickly create a new genre to be able to label Unfashion's supposedly "rapcore" styled sound. While David's vocals are still very much influenced by hip-hop, it'd be a crime to put this 5-piece in the same genre as the two aforementioned bands due to the fact that Unfashion's music also shows huge influences of hardcore / post-hardcore bands such as Snapcase and Helmet, creating a general vibe that could be labeled as "rapcore" if only that word meant the unification between "rap" and "hardcore" styles, which doesn't seem to be the case in present days.

The album is pretty solid for the most part and when compared to the bulk of the so called "rapcore" bands that are currently in the mainstream, Unfashion does not structure their songs with catchy riffs that are easily digestible and radio-friendly. Instead, the sonic attack coming from the guitars here is constructed into more straight-forward songs, and that's about as heavy as it gets. The musicianship is incredibly tight, and vicious and precise vocals / backing vocals increases the record's enjoyment level as a whole. Yet, unfortunately a considerable flaw for the album is David's somewhat poor English, which doesn't seem to have improved much since the band's first demo release. It's a pity, since such a flaw is clearly noticeable even to people who don't speak English as their first language, and in the end this will probably cause it to take away from the listener's overall enjoyment.

Still, if you're an open-minded listener (as you should undoubtedly be), this album is definitely one to look for, as the music presented here is sure to please those old fans of rapcore who aren't satisfied with the genre's current stagnancy, or even the hardcore fans who also like some rapcore but are afraid to admit it, fearing to lose those oh-so important scene points.

Unfashion are undoubtedly playing alone; standing out and continuing on in a genre that became overtly saturated a couple of years ago. It might not be something groundbreaking nor breathtaking, but it's definitely worthy of a listen.