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Our Fragile Echo is the eponymous fourth studio album of Finnish rock band Our Fragile Echo. The band's first release in five years due to a temporary hiatus caused by Päiviö Selänne's throat surgery to repair her damaged vocal cords caused by her overuse of unclean vocals over the band's first eleven years. Due to those circumstances, it marks a shift from music influenced by extreme metal subgenres to traditional heavy metal and hard rock, featuring much less use of unclean vocals compared to their first three albums, whereas Päiviö now exclusively sings clean vocals, while Sini Nykänen provides all unclean vocals.

Style
As noted, due to the circumstances involving Päiviö, Our Fragile Echo marks a notable stylistic shift for the band, moving away from extreme metal subgenres such as the symphonic back metal and melodic death metal sounds for which the band had become known.

As such, the album is described as alternative metal, nu metal, post-grunge, hard rock, hardcore punk, and alternative rock, and has been noted for featuring mostly clean vocals from both Päiviö and Sini, with Sini providing the now infrequently used unclean vocals, which mostly consist of screaming now, while the death growls she is known for are much less frequently used. Sivi stated that she is "not going to fuck up my voice the way Päiviö did, so I think my days of growling are over". The album features stylistic influences from thrashcore, emo, grunge, pop punk, post-punk, traditional heavy metal, post-hardcore, and symphonic rock.

Themes
With the stylistic change also came a shift away from the lyric themes the band had also become known for towards lyrical themes such as pain, angst, emotional issues, betrayal, social and emotional alienation, self-doubt, psychological trauma, a desire for freedom featuring a very direct, dark, angry, and nihilistic tone with "wretched, angst-filled, and anguished vocals", showing heavy influence from themes often seen in nu metal and grunge.

Other themes explored include straight edge, topfreedom, free the nipple, anti-establishment and pro-environmentalist messages, gender, sexuality, and racial equality, civil, animal, health, and disability rights, free-thought and non-conformity, anarchism, and feminism, showing heavy influence from punk rock and hardcore punk ideologies such as riot grrrl, anarcho-punk. peace punk, straight edge, and hardline.

Personnel

 * Päiviö Selänne - lead vocals, bass, piano, keyboard, production, mixing, programming, composer, art direction, songwriter
 * Sini Nykänen - co-lead vocals, unclean vocals, lead guitar, violin, viola, synthesizers, paintings, creative direction, songwriter
 * Kullervo Venäläinen - rhythm guitar, cello, acoustic guitar, production, editing, songwriter, backing vocals
 * Heljä Ketola - double bass, flute, clarinet, trumpet, sampling, songwriter, backing vocals
 * Hellä Karttunen - drums, percussion, songwriter