If You Were a Movie, This Would Be Your Soundtrack

With its 2012 EP If You Were a Movie, This Would Be Your Soundtrack, the Orlando quintet Sleeping with Sirens unplugs and goes acoustic. Silky-voiced Kellin Quinn bookends the EP with two reworked songs from the band's 2010 debut album, With Ears to See, and Eyes to Hear. “Scene One—James Dean & Audrey Hepburn” sets the tone with a lovely, stripped-down version where he sings a new and softer life into the song. Quinn and his band close out the recording by transforming the title track from a wound-up screamo storm of raw emotion into a gripping power ballad. In between, Sleeping with Sirens graces us with three new tunes. “Roger Rabbit” is beachy campfire R&B with a panoramic chorus replete with symphonic cellos. Quinn does well to approximate the feeling of nervous, lovesick nausea in “Stomach Tied in Knots,” where he sings about that universal feeling of losing appetite and sleep when we can no longer have somebody we urgently need. The band picks up the pace in the shuffling, string-laden “Don’t You Ever Forget About Me.”