The Story So Far by The Story So Far is a hard-hitting, thrasing, relentless cascade of emotional tones -- aggressions and lamentations -- that cast the listener into deep states of furore, swept up in their magnetic, torrential storm of musical currents. The tracks are dense and stolid, walls of instrumentation, stampeding forward in differing time signatures, each conveying a heavy emotional landscape. However the dynamism and melodies are also apparent, as are the grooves that viscerally move the listener and take them both to salty highs and brooding, pessimistic, forlorn lows.
TSSF are good at cutting, icy, bitter displays of bile, resentment and remorse -- so satisfyingly delivered with style. Highlights include 'Mock', 'Solo', 'Nerve', which ring out with beautiful instrumentations and melodic lines -- and passionate, desperate, gutsy yet raspy vocals. This type of album defines an era of one's life, a time of sadness, revenge, hatred, love and anger. The album is an outlet for the singer's pent-up rage and fury. A portend for the listener's sadness and solemnity. A memory into lost periods of the reviewer's own life, where the songs' meanings were projected onto fantasy situations or built-up, long gone memories and 'almosts'. Revisited with fresher situations of hopelessness and lost love, obsession and craving. A bedmate, a day's break and a solace for one's hurt mental state. The unstoppable show of power and passion, in a dense package of swaying instrumentations and grooves continues to light the fire in young hearts. |
