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Flyleaf
Memento Mori
Campus Correspondent Review By Laura Cebula,
Belmont University
Best known for its prior singles “All Around Me” and “I’m So Sick,” Flyleaf’s new album Memento Mori (A&M/ Octone Records) continues to hold strong to its powerful musical style, strong vocals and faith-based lyrics. The album opens with the driving “Beautiful Bride,” a song about spiritual unity, followed by the equally power-driven plea for forgiveness “Again.”
Vocalist Lacey Mosley shows off her strong vocal capability on nearly every song, but showcases a softer side of Flyleaf on “Missing” and “Treasure,” a song with the message of refining one’s beauty through the lyrics “I’m in awe and in shock/ I’m in love and given away.”
On this second release, members’ lyrics are more obvious about their faith than on their self-titled debut. Keeping with the album’s namesake, translating to “remembrance of death,” themes of the afterlife are common on Memento Mori. The album closes with “Arise,” a positive song overall that’s peppered with dark analogies and images.
Memento Mori is exactly what listeners would expect from Flyleaf. Rather than being a repeat of its debut album, however, it’s a collection of the band at its best, culminating everything Flyleaf is musically capable of and making it better than its first album.
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