Guys from band Soundwitch realized that the release “Speak” was a mistake. And finally, they did work better to release something more interesting. But in this world nothing simple happens and this release is no exception.
My Rating: 51/100
It's nice to know that the guys found their mistake and fix it. But here it feels a little different. There are much more interesting ideas compared to the previous release. But still, this is not enough to call it a good album, since the methods for solving artistic tasks are too cheap. By the fact that album meets the listener with a sharp, distorted scream, it's already possible to draw similar conclusions.
Composer's work remains at low level again. Here you can notice the same thing as in the previous release: quickly composed instrumental parts, to which composer sticks “some shades” on the move. Yes, there is a noticeably greater amount of composing work here, but composer somehow managed to spoil even such a diversity of ideas.
But all the same, there is something good here. For example, vocalist. And again vocalist is the only good thing on album. But it also affects the cheap composer's work - vocal parts are written just disgusting. And the use of vocoder on backing vocals in track 1 as well as on the lead vocal in track 2 doesn’t indicate an interesting work.
Instrumental parts - here already less predictable decisions. From the point of view of instrumental parts, album looks more vigorous. But this is also not so simple. The first thing to notice is a synthesizer. A very large variety of synthesizer. If in 1, 2 and 4 tracks the sound is artificial, industrial, then in 3 tracks synthesizer's sound becomes more natural. It's not clear why the composer decided to change the album's sound so dramatically. Guitarist in this album shows how a guitarist's high skill lever can be spoiled by strange compositional decisions. But in the end - too simple riffs. However, djent riff in the second track is a pleasant surprise, although it also cannot be called very complex. In track 3, guitarist tries to play a solo. Keyword is “trying”. The last straw of my patience was the grinding of one fifth in 4 tracks. Drums - here the situation is twofold. In one composition, there can be both a primitive drum pattern and rather complex patterns, such as the Booty Camp beat (1 track).
It can not like a sober person in their right mind. Okay, anything can happen. But I can not understand one thing: why spend so much time if you end up with such a weak job? I can understand if it would be a novice job. But this band has existed for 8 years and during that time it was possible to come up with something interesting. And if this release is the best that they came up with in 8 years, then I'm not impressed.
