the second record i pulled from the racks at andrä store was enabler's fourth full length called "fail to feel safe". i didn't even know just one song from that record but had the vague idea, that i would like it. back then, when the band released their third album "la fin absolue du monde", i wasn't far from ordering a copy from century media and a little time later i had a physical copy of it in my hands at burnout store, hamburg. somehow i never got around to picking up a copy and when "fail to feel safe" came out, other things were more important.
but just the same thing with the city to city record seconds before, holding a coloured copy in hands was all i needed to give it a shot. furthermore, for just a tenner as price for admission, who was i to let it down. now that i have listened to the record i am very pleasantly surprised at the variety of enabler's sound. i listened to the opener "suffer to survive" at the store and felt a good dosage of that converge or trap them venom but now after full spin, i found enabler adding a few bits of clean singing and punk hooks to the mix. they managed to create a distinct sound for theirselves.
the whole record does really entertain me from first to last tune, we will see if it has a long term quality but for now, "fail to feel safe" is a flawless record. period. the presentation is quite nice. lovely cover art work printed on some fancy matte cardboard sleeve, a sturdy printed dust sleeve, a poster of the cover art in black and white, a cd for digital amusement and 180g dark green vinyl. the vinyl colour seems a bit out of place, don't who thought that this might be a good idea. anyway, only 100 copies made as green hell exclusive edition. century media. 2015.
