After the band's reasonably epic introduction, Anberlin completely surprised me, with their first track "Godspeed". Many have heard this on the band's myspace before, but I unfortunately passed this track up, strictly because of the predictions I had from the band's past efforts. But let me tell you, after finally getting around to this track, I've found myself flipping back to it over and over again. With this being the track that gave me that Saosin-ish feeling from the instruments and production, I instantly fell in love with "Cities". As "Godspeed" expires, A new tune is forced into my head. This time around I encounter an unusual feeling as I hum the easily repeated "Adelaide (Adelaide), You really had me going this time... Adelaide (Adelaide), you need to quit quit making a scene". Now in no way are these lyrics overly original, but something about the way vocalist Stephen Christian delivers them to listeners, keeps them stuck in your head until the ever anthemic "A Whisper and A Clamor". Following the third catchy song in a row, Anberlin tone things down for one of my favorite tracks on the album "The Unwinding Cable Car". With this new approach, I feel as if the band is finally traveling a once uncharted area only to come across a great treasure. This effect really struck me right from the beginning. At first I thought "Hmmm.. This is kind of weird sounding" but the uniqueness of this track stuck with me and proved to be another charm to "Cities" not to mention a frequently visited area. Following this track, "Hello Alone" proved to be no competition for the earier overly catchy tracks on the album, so this track ended up being skipped as well as the following "Bury Your Head" (by Saosin) like "Reclusion". From hear on out, I found my mind wandering on as I consistantly found myself multi-tasking during this portion of the disc. But as soon as Anberlin takes another venture into their mellow experimentation I found myself keenly listening as Christian belts out yet again, another one liner. The words "I want to be your last first kiss that you'll ever have," echo through my head minutes after as the album's time begins to expire. I think after this track, the album was over for me. Something about the way it ended had me reflecting on it through the last 2 tracks. So I almost feel as if it'd be more effective to switch this track ("Inevitable") around with "Fin" because "Fin" really proved to be an over- looked track in my book (at least until the epic closure).