Album of the Week: East of the Wall - Redaction Artifacts

     This week's album is another instance of me putting your money where my mouth is, so to speak. What in the fuck do I mean by that? Well, it's not unheard of that I recommend a song to you on any given day with the caveat that, sure, song X is great on its own, but put back into the context of album Y it's even better.

     In other words, I often tell you about bands and artists whose work is best experienced in complete, album-sized chunks rather than one song at a time. These are the albums that, for one reason or another, demand to be heard in full -- no skimming just the singles, no skipping the "boring" stuff, just put in on and let it go.

     One of the aforementioned possible reasons for taking in the whole of an album like, say, East of the Wall's 2013 record Redaction Artifacts, is sheer density. There's just so much going on in East of the Wall's intricate, layered compositions on Redaction that it takes more than one song to get your head around the band's sound.

     But like a Tootsie Roll, I promise you the time investment will pay off when you get to the creamy centre. The only downside? No full album streams floating around that I've found, so you'll either have to content yourself with the band's previous album The Apologist or you'll just have to do yourself a favour and pick yourself up a copy of Redaction Artifacts.