"Grime and Glass" (7:39) begins, again, with a much more industrialized "80s meet Grunge" feel to it. All the while the jazzy guitar chord strumming plays-until the 5:05 mark when more familiar, though somehow 80s synth glossyed, Post Rock playing style takes over to build to a typical frenzied finish. A very catchy, melodic jazzy-pop theme (think XTC joined with STYLE COUNCIL) begins at the :30 mark and continues for some very enjoyable two-and-a-half minutes before a different CURE/MEET DANNY WILSON theme and pace begins.
"Alogas" (7:37) begins with a very PREFAB SPROUT-sounding jazz guitar chords over synth wind and echoed synth sputtering. Even the song's decay (some might say, 'demise') is fascinating and entertaining. For some reason, the heavy guitars never seem to disturb or overwhelm the ears and the vocals screamed as if from 100 feet away are also very fresh, interesting and effective. "Dime and Suture" (6:09) The shifts and changes in this song just keep you guessing-keep you interested and amazed. The heavily distorted bass throughout this song is just excellent. At 4:05 the pace drops off and the song floats into a very distorted sea of At 5:25 a lead guitar takes off and soars to goose-bumping heights! 6:30 shift to 6:45 punk/metal chops until an odd break of canned 1920s jazz floats around-as if over loudspeakers at the pavilion of the local town square. At 3:18 a distant high octave guitar riff is entered before we return to main theme again. A shift at the 2:15 mark travels into more Grunge-like territory-until at 2:43 the main melody themes are introduced. "Lionize" (8:23) begins with a rather straightforward Math Rock feel-very low end-dominant. One thing I don't quite understand-and this seems to happen quite a lot in this genre-is the seeming appearance of synthesizer or keyboard parts when no keyboards or keyboard players are mentioned.ġ. These guys have come a long way from "From Fathoms"-and it's only been a year! The unexpected twists and turns, use of effects, and mice melodic themes make this a much more mature and adventuresome collection. Posted Thursday, Ma| Review this album | Report (Review #926222) I highly recommend giving this one a spin or two.Ĥ.5 rounded up because it masters what it wants to do, and because I can. The general aesthetic is a sort of coming to moments of clarity through dissonance, not unlikeĬoming to peaks of consciousness though intoxication. It helps that they don't feel like they are taking themselves too seriously. There is angst, to be sure, but it doesn't come across as the immature stereotype of the This album in particular, and GFE in general, evoke a special sort of emotion quite effectively. While I never missed them before the lyrics work perfectly here. Order of sonic pain and gain.) Oh yeah: now there are lyrics throughout. Ulcerate as another example, but that is an entirely different genere and on an entirely different It's a good kind of dissonance, though,Īnd once you can sumberge your listening into it you can appreciate the subtlety (I think of Wall-of-sound approach (a levelling out othe loud/soft dynamic, certainly.) At first I found theĪlbum slightly grating in fact, with the crunchy textures of the guitars staying at what was onceĬlimax-level in the previous formula for much of the album. To a far more solid post-hardcore/post-metal sound, and what for that genre is something of a (to great effect, however pretentious that sounds.) The point always was found in thier divurgenceįrom the harder metal roots and eventual coming to a great height. Often coming to an emotive climax at the end of an album that was built around repurposed monologues Post-hardcore/post-metal instrumentation that melts away into progressive and spacey interludes,
Marks a sizeable leap from the previous GFE formula that played more to loud/soft dynamics using Simply that fans of Gifts From Enola are still not sure what to make of this album. The likely reason there has been so little attention to this album, both here and elsewhere, is It's just a crime that this hasn't been reviewed here, and the further crime is that my little blurb
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