Something To Lust About

carlet broke up in 2000, having only released an EP, Breaking the Dead Stare. Members of the band went their separate ways to work on other projects, but the group reunited in a slightly augmented form in 2002, for what was intended to be a one-off studio project. Things went so well, however, that Scarlet decided to hang together for awhile and produce a full-length album. In the meantime, the reunited band's initial studio work resulted in the release of this six-track EP, designed to keep fans happy until the album comes out sometime in the next year. Metalcore fans won't be disappointed: Something to Lust About achieves escape heavyosity almost immediately and never lets up; the songs are short (average length: about two minutes) and fraught (typical couplet: "This is the life of the living dead/This is the revolver blowing off my head") and have a disturbing tendency to conflate the erotic and the necrotic. Fun? No. Compelling? Maybe. The full-length album should give us more to work with. ~ Rick Anderson|