Claude says:Anberlin's 2012 pivot into synth-laced alternative rock on Vital caught you right when it dropped, though you've drifted back to it sporadically over the years—Little Tyrants and Self-Starter landing hardest each time. It's a record that trades some of their post-hardcore intensity for electronic texturing and cleaner production, the kind of reinvention that either clicks or doesn't, and for you it's been more of a occasional return than a constant.