No longer on a major label, Funeral For A Friend are releasing their fourth album on their own label and a founding member, bassist Gareth Davies has recently left for fresher pastures.

They may have a new bassist now (Gavin Burrough, pictured above - second from left), but it’s still not looking good at all. Surely this is the last throw of the post-hardcore dice for the Welsh wizards.

Cast those doubts far from your mind because after the relative disappointment of 2007’s classic rock-orientated concept album, Tales Don’t Tell Themselves, F4AF are back with riffs so big, you’ll see emo starjumps all the way back to the horizon.

Indeed, the big spiel sees them celebrating the fact album #4 is being released exactly five years after releasing their magnificent debut, Casually Dressed And Deep In Conversation. Memory And Humanity is a return to that kind of form.

The double A-side of ‘Beneath the Burning Tree’ and ‘Waterfront Dance Club’ helped to pique the interest of their fans and gave great insight into what M&H is all about