* EpicRiff: "Roses for the Dead", "Recovery", "Serpents in Solitude", "Sixteen" and "Spinning Over the Island".
* FirstInstallmentWins: ''Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation'' remains their most critically acclaimed and popular album.
** There are also a number of people who believe that their first or second EP is this trope, due to considering the band to have sold out by [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks removing the screaming on the rerecorded "Juno"]].
** Some fans now consider ''Conduit'' to be their best release. It's certainly their darkest and heaviest.
* HypeBacklash: So much. The band just saw themselves as one of many emo bands, but received an unprecedented amount of exposure thanks to good management. The hype sticker for ''Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation'' suggested they were the next Music/{{Nirvana}}, and they were compared to Music/IronMaiden at the time. By the time of ''Hours'', they were being seen as a band for teenage girls due to their presence on Radio 1 and ''Series/TopOfThePops''. Due to the following album ''Tales Don't Tell Themselves''' lead single "Into Oblivion (Reunion)" being more alt-rock than their previous output, it killed their credibility. ''Memory and Humanity'' was hyped up as being the band's best since ''Casually Dressed...'', despite being a rather different style of music. Furthermore, the reviews claiming that ''Conduit'' was the band's best work yet despite changing style yet again didn't go down well. Basically, they have been the victims of their own publicity for their entire career, rather than being judged on their music's merits.
* {{Narm}}: "Sonny", oh god how Matt over-sings here.
** He does the same thing on "Drive", especially when it sounds like he's chewing the microphone.
** And on "Faster", during the line 'when there's nowhere left to run.'
** His more recent stuff live where he starts shouting a lyric randomly, not screaming it, but just shouting it for some reason.
* NeverLiveItDown: Despite making consistently great music, the band have played on the nostalgia of their first two [=EPs=] and first two albums during pretty much every album cycle they've done. The band even did a song about it, "Old Hymns", in which they lament their early popularity and the fact that older fans don't view their new work in the same way - 'I used to mean something to you, but now I'm tired and alone'.
* OlderThanTheyThink: "This Letter", an acoustic song recorded during the ''Hours'' sessions, is commonly held to show how they went softer for that album. In 2013, it was revealed that they recorded an earlier version during the sessions for their first EP ''Between Order and Model''. At this time the song was called "Grand Central Station". They didn't release it originally because it wasn't representative of their sound. It was a slap in the face to people who thought the band was just heavy during that EP's period.
* SameSurnameMeansRelated: Averted with the band having both Matthew Davies and Gareth Davies in the band. Also, the preceding band January Thirst had Michael Davies. None are related - it's just that Davies is a very common surname in Wales.
* TearJerker: The video for "Roses for the Dead".
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The band have suffered this a fair few times during their career. First when the band were releasing ''Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation'' and had removed the screaming vocals on Juno and had less screaming than ''Between Order and Model''. Secondly, when the band had released ''Hours'', the fans complained due to its LighterAndSofter sound, having more of a 2000s emo sound than post hardcore, though the band was still at the peak of their popularity in these era. Thirdly, when the band had released ''Tales Don't Tell Themselves'', which featured a lighter, more alternative rock sound and conceptual lyrics about a fisherman, the band lost a fair number of fans, complaining the band had sold out and calling their album a dork age. ''Memory and Humanity'' hadn't fared better, with the band's lowest charting singles, though once the band released ''Welcome Home Armageddon'' it returned a lot of old fans. The final and last time was either ''Conduit'', due to the loss of the band's screamer/drummer at the time Ryan Richards, and the genre shift to hardcore, or ''Chapter and Verse'' due to the lighter sound and rather bleak feel (A lot of the tracks seemed to detail the band's breakup, and Matt trying to cope with the lack of success in recent years).
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Boysetsfire joke in the reissue of ''Between Order and Model'' that they couldn't understand the band's accents when they first met them. Having never heard Welsh accents, they initially thought the group was Indian. This is somewhat understandable as Matt's singing voice is a dead-ringer for a Midwestern American accent, typical of the bands that influenced him.
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