November 25, 2017

Spider Lilly - Change/Pain (Review)

From beginners usually don't expect much. Often you are happy if they just did something good.

My Rating: 60/100

Today I'm reviewing first release of band Spider Lilly, which is titled "Change / Pain". I will not say that it's a very interesting title, but for first single it will be enough. So, the first thing you can notice is the poor recording quality. Well, they at least guessed to remove unnecessary resonances from guitar and that's good.

Here we hear riffs on drop tuning that are very characteristic for groove / nu-metal, as well as a large amount of synthesizer. You can also notice that compositions are very similar. But there are noticeable differences: in first track we hear a slap on bass, and in second we have more complicated synthesizer's parts. Also compositions end in different ways. This is all that distinguishes them. It seems that there was originally one composition, which was slightly changed, so it was split into two parts.

First thing we pay attention to voice. There is a reverb that sounds very natural. As if vocals were recorded in a large empty room with two microphones (first - closer to vocalist, second - in another part of the room). If this is true, then this can be called a good idea. But voice sounds very indistinct. And if clean is not noticeable, extreme techniques show all flaws. Sound is as if they just took microphone, performed the parts and inserted result into mix. No, vocalist has a pretty good skill, but voice processing is not noticeable.

Instrumental parts are simple. And guitar part is no exception. Yes, there is an "acid" synthesizer that performs scales. But it could be better. She is such an interesting guitarist, but she plays simple parts. About bassist you can say the same thing. Most of the time bassist performs standard constructions. Nevertheless, even here there are interesting segments. In first track, we hear a slap, and in second interesting scales. And also there is a very "hook" structure of drums, which is a bad decision. Nevertheless, here there are breakdowns, where relative diversity of drum parts is noticeable. And also at the end of composition, drums are changing significantly. A small variety is available here.

This work is rather weak, but for beginners this is a good result. And if they extend this idea, it can turn out very interesting. I can say that they have a good start to their careers.