Crime In Stereo's "Is Dead" is a defining release for the Long Island band. After surviving circumstances that would have caused most other bands to perish, Crime In Stereo spent four years and two full-length albums learning how to be a band. That experience makes their Bridge Nine debut transcend traditional hardcore or punk into a final result that, as guitarist/songwriter Alex Dunne said, "is the first Crime In Stereo record that sounds like Crime In Stereo."