Low Teens is Every Time I Die’s most poignant and impassioned album in a career full of sardonic illuminations and pit-inciting fervor. The icy backdrop of their hometown Buffalo, NY underscores a winter of dramatic change for the band. Change that began with frontman Keith Buckley exiting the band’s Dec 2015 tour early to race home to his wife’s hospital bedside, where she was facing life-threatening pregnancy complications. Both wife and daughter survived, but the moment of crisis had a lasting impact on Buckley and an inevitable role in shaping the lyrical scope of Low Teens.