Sometimes, it’s healthier to look at the glass as half empty. Believing in more than what’s right in front of you can inspire hope and act as the catalyst for change; this is the idea behind Salt Lake City band, Wearing Thin. Through poetic lyrics and emotional performances, the band embodies the misery of living in a vicious world, while simultaneously exploring humanity’s potential to either reconcile or self destruct. Battles fought internally or externally lead to new perspectives that can make us question everything. Do the changes we implement actually improve our lives, or just make us feel better about ourselves as we dig deeper and deeper graves to comfortably rot in? These themes are most evident on their latest release, More Than Just A Frame. Inspired by hardcore, emo, and ambient music like post-rock, Wearing Thin utilize heavy guitar progressions with plenty of open strings left ringing that create dense and moody chords, passionate vocals that miraculously remain intelligible as frontman, Tylor Blackburn screams his throat raw, and drums acting as the anchor that keeps the tracks from tearing themselves to pieces. On softer cuts such as the opening track “Demons”, the band really strips it back to the studs where solo acoustic guitar and vocals provide haunting contrast to the album’s turmoil. The band shed their DIY production to work with Underoath’s Aaron Gillespie who makes the songs snap with a neat, but certainly not sterile mix....