In this day and age, everything is a commodity. Music was the final frontier and even that's been reduced to a product. Honesty and passion has been replaced by dollars and cents with bands creating a "look", writing a "hook" to catch the eyes of a young teenage girl and a record exec. Cookie-cutter bands down the line have perfected a product that will launch them into super stardom. There's nothing behind their eyes, they're creating music for the wrong reasons. It has no real attitude. There are always exceptions to that trend though - you just have to dig deeper than what's being force fed. Make Do And Mend are the epitome of that exception, with the depth of Hot Water Music and the youthfulness of Jimmy Eat World pieced together with their own dark post-hardcore sound. "End Measured Mile" encompasses Make Do And Mend's own brand of post-hardcore that is as melodic as it is fierce, perfecting a sound that's more than able to convince you that aggressive emotion and heartfelt honesty are not dead in the punk music that we fell in love with.
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