8/16/2006
Tracklist
Intro/Cottonmouth
Spastic Orion
It's a Nice Day to Die
Valve Cover
Backbreak
Bread Puddin
Psych
2-3= -Fun
Spore Addict
C'Mon
Cadence
Gherkin...
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Here's some excellent instrumental work from this New Orleans group that has quite a range of styles covered. Of courses there's some math metal in there, but the songs (which are generally brief) travel from smooth clean breaks to lots of distortion and rhythmic picking patterns or technical riffing, as well as some great melodic chord progressions and layering. At times the clean passages have an off kilter indie rock vibe happening, and "It's a Nice Day to Die" even kicks out the southern country flavor with some slick acoustic guitars playing a jangly mix of arpeggios and chord progressions over some distant feedback. Very fucking cool. There's a bit of jazziness to "Psych", and "2 - 3 = -Fun" is chock full of blazing rock solos and dual guitar harmonies. I love the drumming. The performance is really tight with some excellent fills and cymbal work, but it's not too flashy: He knows when to go nuts and when to take it easy and be the backbone. The songwriting is excellent as well, because there's often an emotional quality to the music that's all too often absent from instrumental acts' output, and that makes this stuff so much better than most of what I've heard from similar bands. "C'mon" runs twice as long as the other tracks, hitting the seven-minute mark, but never gets boring, despite ample repetition… there's just something about the flow. I like the recording. I might prefer to hear a little bit more density/volume to the bass, but that's it. The drums are heavy and natural, the guitars have great texture and clarity, and the mix is fine for the most part. I don't have any real complaints whatsoever. I can't say I'm big on the layout though, it's just really inconsistent across the board and doesn't do this incredible musicianship justice. There's no text on the front cover, just a toned photo (with a weird color scheme) of an Asian girl imprisoned and looking out a fenced window or something, then on the inner spread is a black and white band photo, and the back cover is an image of a group of people that I guess might be awaiting execution or something. The text on the traycard is crisp and legible, but the minimal text that appears on the back of the booklet is horribly pixilated and looks like crap. The images range from fairly clear (the band photo) to slightly pixilated and a bit rough (everything else), and there's no cohesion to the typefaces or colors used throughout. This is one of those CD's that proves you can't judge a book by its cover. I put off listening to this for weeks because the layout was so awful and bland, but musically these guys are fucking great, and I really enjoy this. Now I feel like a jackass for not having given this a spin sooner.
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