Last night's epic number by nearly nameless band ██████ may well have left you a little drained, especially if you had the good sense to turn it up loud and stick it out for the whole thing. To that end, I have a bit of a change of pace for you tonight.
I've written about electro-instrumental outfit The Algorithm before, when I got into their first LP Polymorphic Code, but it's time to feature the work of Remi Gallego once again, this time to commemorate the recent release of sophomore disc Octopus4.
The sound is familiar this time out -- bloopy, glitchy, replete with and peppered with wub -- but with less focus on big, djenty riffs and more on ambiance and variety. A perfect example is tonight's song, title track "Octopus4", which rolls merrily along its techno-metal path for most of its nine-minute duration before taking an abrupt turn down mellow jazz keyboard avenue for the last couple of minutes.
It's a jarring transition, rather than being a fluidly unnoticeable one, but I still dig the fact that Remi is branching out, if only a little. If electronic music of any stripe is your thing, and even if it isn't, you should at least see what The Algorithm is all about. Some of the beats alone are worth the price of admission.
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Thursday, 5 June 2014
Wednesday, 4 June 2014
██████ - V
Better clear about fifteen minutes out of your busy schedule, because you're going to want to let tonight's epic slow-burn run its course.
██████, a band whose name/logo defies pronunciation (hence the band sometimes being referred to as "nic") has recently done a split with Old Soul, and while I was previously unfamiliar with either of them, a pretty massive quarter of an hour has convinced me I need to get familiar with at least one of these acts.
██████'s song "V" takes blackened elements like trem-picked riffs and builds with them a monolithic slab of post-metal dirge that still retains the "ebb and flow" feel that you'd expect from post-anything. I know it's a pretty good chunk of time to commit to a single song by a band you've never heard of that uses a black bar for its name, but if epic metal with some black, doom, and death flavours tossed in is at all your cup of tea, "V" will provide you a whole pot to savour.
██████, a band whose name/logo defies pronunciation (hence the band sometimes being referred to as "nic") has recently done a split with Old Soul, and while I was previously unfamiliar with either of them, a pretty massive quarter of an hour has convinced me I need to get familiar with at least one of these acts.
██████'s song "V" takes blackened elements like trem-picked riffs and builds with them a monolithic slab of post-metal dirge that still retains the "ebb and flow" feel that you'd expect from post-anything. I know it's a pretty good chunk of time to commit to a single song by a band you've never heard of that uses a black bar for its name, but if epic metal with some black, doom, and death flavours tossed in is at all your cup of tea, "V" will provide you a whole pot to savour.
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