A Dead Sinking Story is an album by the Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese band Envy

Envy (band)

Envy is a rock band from Japan. They are signed to Rock Action Records in Europe and Temporary Residence Limited in North America, though originally they worked with Level Plane Records. More recently in their career, Envy's music has grown to include elements of post-rock.Vocalist Tetsuya Fukagawa...

. The album was released on August 18, 2003 on Level Plane Records. It is their only album recorded with three guitarists; Daichi Takasugi joined before the creation of the album and left after the related tour.

Track listing

Personnel

• Dairoku Seki – Drums
• Tetsuya Fukagawa – Sequencer, Vocals
• Nobukata Kawai – Guitar
• Masahiro Tobita – Guitar
• Manabu Nakagawa – Bass Guitar
• Daichi Takasugi – Guitar
• Takashi Kitaguchi – Engineering
• Tatsuya Kase – Mastering

Reception

Reception was almost uniformly positive, with Allmusic, Stylus Magazine

Stylus Magazine

Stylus Magazine was an online music and film magazine launched in 2002. It featured long-form music journalism, four daily music reviews, movie reviews, a number of different podcasts, an MP3 blog, and a text blog....

, and Punknews.org

Punknews.org

Punknews.org is a website founded by Aubin Paul which launched in 1999. The website publishes music news and album reviews relating to punk rock, hardcore punk, ska, indie rock and heavy metal...

 all praising the album's hybrid of emo

Emo

Emo is a style of rock music and its associated subcultureEmo may also refer to:- Businesses :* Emo , an Irish oil company and filling station chain* Emo Speedway, a racetrack in Emo, Ontario...

, screamo

Screamo

Screamo, though used loosely to generally describe music that features screamed vocals, is actually a musical subgenre of hardcore punk which predominantly evolved from emo, among other genres, in the early 1990s...

, and postrock.