[6] Mike from In Music We Trust writes: "Society's Finest play the kind of gripping, grueling metalcore that will leave you sweaty, spent, and most likely, really banged up.

An extremely competent ensemble still looking for a firm direction, the group seems to be wavering between the technically outrageous arrangements currently in vogue in the metal underground, and old-school hardcore's simpler charms.

To wit, songs like "Vanity and the Gun" and "Ennis, TX" clearly flirt (rather unconvincingly, one should note) with the fringes of math metal mayhem; and it's more straightforward, groove-built numbers like "Pop Culture in Houston" and "The Art...the Morgue" that find the band most at ease.

"[2] David Stagg reported "When Society’s Finest's EP Love, Murder, and a Three Letter Word came out back in June of 2004, it was my honor to review it for this very magazine.

Whether it was help from producer Andreas Magnusson (of Black Dahlia Murder, Scarlet, and Gods fame), or the time off that pushed them to the limit, you could barely ask for more from a reformed band's first full-length in years.