Claude says:Anberlin's 2012 pivot toward synth-touched alternative rock landed in your world that summer, though you kept it at arm's length—a couple spins across four months, with A Whisper & a Clamor being the one that stuck enough to return to. It's the sound of a band caught between their heavier roots and something slicker, shinier, more radio-ready, which maybe wasn't quite what you were after at the time.