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After an arty-experimental-progressive intro, you find yourself violently
hurled into the heavy grumbling dis-jointed riffs of"Drowning the
Old Hag." It's the musical equivalent of being thrown into a circle
pit while you're drinking a pint. The thing it all lacks is some singing.
The vocals rely on some monotone shouts andgut-wrenching screams. It all
seems like a bit of a waste of what is,on the whole, really good music.
But I suppose, for that genre, that'swhat makes them good. "Taking
Cassandra to the End of the World Party"is when some proper singing
starts- over a brilliant guitar and drum intro, lacking all the floor-bouncing-bass
of the previous tracks. Asexpected it finally finds it's way into a distorted
tangle and the eerie vocals once again turn into screams. But it's actually
really good here, the song is getting somewhere.
Now, the album has really found it's feeling. The initial tracks are slightly
misleading, the rest of these tracks are fantastic. Still retaining the
heaviness, but this time blending awesome riffs and sequences, and the
occasional softer break-down. Other key tracks include "Dog Sized
Bird," "...As A Result of Signals Being Crossed,"and the
fantastic "My Deer Hunter," starting with a gentleelectro-style
into and eventually building up to some really atmospheric stuff, with
powerful deep chords and two vocals shoutingaway, as if helplessly lost
in the ambient tangle.
With exception of the final track, the album ends up where it started.The
indie-influences that crept in for the excellent mid-section have disappeared
once more, and we're back to square one. The final track,"Absolute
Past," is more of a glorified outro than a song, but it'scertainly
a good end to an interesting album.
3.5/5
Review by Thom |
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David Michael Marion (vocals)
Adam Rupert Fisher (guitar/vocals)
Mike Madruga (bass)
Zachary Hutchings (guitar)
Clayton Holyoak (drums) |
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1. Absolute Future
2. Drowning The Old Hag
3. Mouth
4. Taking Cassandra To The End Of The World Party
5. Ten Seconds In Los Angeles
6. Waiting Makes Me Curious
7. High As A Horse
8. Dog Sized Bird
9. Complete And Utter Confusion
10. As A Result Of Signals Being Crossed
11. My Deer Hunter
12. Lycanthropy
13. Brief Tutorial In Bachanalia
14. Gift For Fiction
15. Absolute Past |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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