It's cool, the "tomorrow they will find us [...] hide the children" part is repeated in Bone Marrow, only Rody sings it with sort of sheer terror in his voice.

Awesome, I'll be looking forward to that.

I'm currently looking forward to all of it, beyond two songs obviously.

I'm typing up a brief description of each song for someone on last.fm so if you want ill post it here. I guess.

edit: apparently that's not actually arif singing in bloodmeat. It's either Juice (producer) or Rody. Arif just does it in the video.

[QUOTE=Cocaine;15756478]I'm typing up a brief description of each song for someone on last.fm so if you want ill post it here. I guess.

edit: apparently that's not actually arif singing in bloodmeat. It's either Juice (producer) or Rody. Arif just does it in the video.[/QUOTE]

Goddammit.

He does it live too it looks like.

he does it live, yeah.

[QUOTE=Cocaine;15756478]I'm typing up a brief description of each song for someone on last.fm so if you want ill post it here. I guess.

edit: apparently that's not actually arif singing in bloodmeat. It's either Juice (producer) or Rody. Arif just does it in the video.[/QUOTE]

do ittt.

[QUOTE=Cocaine;15756478]I'm typing up a brief description of each song for someone on last.fm so if you want ill post it here. I guess.

edit: apparently that's not actually arif singing in bloodmeat. It's either Juice (producer) or Rody. Arif just does it in the video.[/QUOTE]

Yah. Post it here.

I gave up part-way through.

[QUOTE]Didn't do bloodmeat or sequoia. I'll send quick blurbs about the rest later; I got lazy. Take 'em with a grain of salt. Also: it's way more technical and a lot heavier, so I didn't bother mentioning that very much.

Dissentience - First song written for the disc. Serves as a bridge between Bloodmeat and Bone Marrow. Highly melodic, very groovy. Seems a little choppy at parts but the sum of it all is an excellent track. Very catchy bass-tapping during the main hook toward the end; a real sing-songy chunk before a scathing and fast ending (that features Rody pulling off a 11 second scream)


Bone Marrow - Starts off with lots of bass slapping. A very orchestrated song; features the heaviest use of the underpinned keyboards (that sort of mimic strings). Probably one of the harder tracks to follow, but also one of the strongest. Extremely varied structure, and features the closest thing to a typical breakdown, only it takes place beneath a highly melodic and catchy vocal passage. Ends with an acoustic guitar and piano driven section

Palms Read - Think "Turn Soonest" on steroids. Much heavier; song tends to implode upon itself at times, especially at the end, when it pauses for a minute before turning the technicality up to 400. Borders in circus-y weirdness at one part but it's one riff, and in context of a palm reading, I guess it makes sense.

Limb from Limb - Great song; heavy but ruined by a ridiculous keyboard solo. Really dry and groovy other than the Nintendo-riffic keyboard solo.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]Palms Read - Think "Turn Soonest" on steroids.[/QUOTE]

oh lawdy

It's true. It has the same sort of melodic arpeggios at the beginning and has a huge epic part mid-way through. It's a minute shorter than Turn Soonest though, and much, much more dense.

Is it sing songy like the "Maybe Someday" part of TSTTS?

[QUOTE=As The Roots Undo;15758769]Is it sing songy like the "Maybe Someday" part of TSTTS?[/QUOTE]

Sort of. Most songs have a really theatrical sing along part

edit: Spoils - Balls out. 1/3 So-Cal Punk, 1/3 Bay Area Thrash, 1/3 Technical Thrash (in the vein of Watchtower). Extremely melodic vocal hook relating to the abstract distinctions that fall between anima/animus. Ends with a soulful and oddly morose sounding piano coda.

I need this now. :(

Wretch - The most blatantly Spastic Ink influenced track. The most vocally varied as well, with Rody growling, screaming, singing and doing this odd 80s Poison-like falsetto. Features Arif's only recorded vocals in his harmonising during "our goddess gave birth to your god". One of the heavier tracks, and features a lot of Jarzombek's Circle of 12. Also features a clip of a cat meowing. Seemingly random at first, the story, it turns out, is that Rody was tracking vocals while holding the studio cat and she happened to meow alongside the music, so they kept it.

Goddess Bound - The elusive track formerly referred to as "Va[B]gi[/B]nal Secretions". Track is laced with a sense of doom and chaos, mostly exemplified in the last minute, not heard live, mostly due to it's spiralling technicality and circular shredding. Excellent transitions from harsh to clean vocals, and features very non-invasive leads. Second half kicks off with a really outstanding semi-southern influenced groove that leads to an insanely catchy breakdown, one that relies on higher-sounding leads rather than the underpinned chug. Features "it's a neighbour saving face by saying grace today for yesterday's behaviour", one of my favourite lines on the album.

Goddess Gagged - Starts off with a very melodic run. Rody throws in what feels like 500 words in the matter of 20 seconds before the song gets going. Mostly relies on rhythmic shifts before it speeds up in the more soaring sections. Ends so fittingly and cleverly that I really don't want to spoil anything more.

That's all I'll say, you gotta wait for my review for something better. Had more but I edited it out. You can wait :)

ahhhhhhh :(



Seriously, just from the two tracks I've heard and your descriptions I'm set for this to blow my mind.

[QUOTE=Cocaine;15752293].

It's just really cool how it's handled. It goes from the first chunk, which deals with raids, pillages and death to the second portion, which seems to deal exclusively with the Milesian Invasion as well as other instances of Christian crusades over Pagan land, and the last chunk seemingly puts it in a modern perspective, sort of restarting the cycle on the last track.[/QUOTE]

wdf and i said the album might be about some kind of war or some sort and you basically scold me (well not scold me) but told me im completely wrong.......you just proved me that i was right about it being somewhat about a war when I was on your review..

It's not about a war or anything like that at all. Re-read what I said. It's about worship. How worship begins and ends. Etc. If you can't follow I can't help.

That's hilarious about the cat.

For sure. When I first heard it I was so confused. It definitely helps counteract the lyrical and musical weight of the rest of the album.

Isn't also about the loss of worship because of science and some stuff like that? And things related to that ancient goddess, whatever her name be.

Well I just read some quotes about it, so that answers my questions.

k I've come to the conclusion that Rody should be the joker.

[QUOTE=Cocaine;15756358]It's cool, the "tomorrow they will find us [...] hide the children" part is repeated in Bone Marrow, only Rody sings it with sort of sheer terror in his voice.[/QUOTE]

I love when bands use a section from one song in another.

[QUOTE=Cocaine;15758821]Wretch - The most blatantly Spastic Ink influenced track. The most vocally varied as well, with Rody growling, screaming, singing and doing this odd 80s Poison-like falsetto. Features Arif's only recorded vocals in his harmonising during "our goddess gave birth to your god". One of the heavier tracks, and features a lot of Jarzombek's Circle of 12. Also features a clip of a cat meowing. Seemingly random at first, the story, it turns out, is that Rody was tracking vocals while holding the studio cat and she happened to meow alongside the music, so they kept it.

Goddess Bound - The elusive track formerly referred to as "Va[B]gi[/B]nal Secretions". Track is laced with a sense of doom and chaos, mostly exemplified in the last minute, not heard live, mostly due to it's spiralling technicality and circular shredding. Excellent transitions from harsh to clean vocals, and features very non-invasive leads. Second half kicks off with a really outstanding semi-southern influenced groove that leads to an insanely catchy breakdown, one that relies on higher-sounding leads rather than the underpinned chug. Features [b]"it's a neighbour saving face by saying grace today for yesterday's behaviour"[/b], one of my favourite lines on the album.

Goddess Gagged - Starts off with a very melodic run. Rody throws in what feels like 500 words in the matter of 20 seconds before the song gets going. Mostly relies on rhythmic shifts before it speeds up in the more soaring sections. Ends so fittingly and cleverly that I really don't want to spoil anything more.

That's all I'll say, you gotta wait for my review for something better. Had more but I edited it out. You can wait :)[/QUOTE]

I've heard that line somewhere before, but I can't think of where. Mighta been on one of Rody's blogs on youtube or something.

Or in this thread

Its bothering me so much now:mad:

If you've seen them live in the last few months then you've probably heard it when they played the song.

I have not, I live in Chicago.

Don't think they've been in the U.S. for a couple of years. =(

Yes they have.

i agree 100%

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