Showing posts with label Album Reviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Album Reviews. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Album Review: Love, Hate, Despair - Breach of Fate


No fancy title here for a while. I intend to have this review as direct as this band gets their message across. 

Are you a Metallica fan? 

Then better read on. 

If you would put a specific label to Breach of Fate's music, you could'nt actually do that. 

At first listen, they would struck a loud chord to the heart of any Metallica fan. At second listen, you would be singing along. And then, you'd find yourself hitting the replay button. 

Dying Days is a catchy alternative rock song that crosses borders to metaldom. Breaking Point talks about heavy frustrations but is somehow uplifting. And the banner song Love Song for Ana is a sad and sincere scream of longing and love. 


It is a well produced album for a local release. I could hear the bass, guitars, drums and vocals clean. 

Love, Hate and Despair, in summation, is a fitting soundtrack for the feelings it speaks: love, hate and despair. 

PS: 
This is what this review could've been:
Fuck, this guys are fuckin awesome live and it's even more fuckin awesome to hear them on the record. 

Jack of All Trades - Bruce Springsteen feat. Tom Morello


Jack of All Trades is a track off of Bruce Springsteen's new patriotic album, "Wrecking Ball". He had a little help making this track gut wrenching from Tom Morello's trademark shredding.

Some links don't work,but this one will.

This track is much like the vintage Bruce Springsteen, it is best played in an open arena with thousands of people and a flag waving. However, there's a bonus Tom Morello solo towards the end. Bruce Springsteen and Rage Against the Machine, imagine the rate it will cause on the anthemic meter.

The whole album sounds like this, which is a great thing.  With most iconic artists deviating from their own original sounds, it is a great channel for the new generation to get to know the classic Springsteen.

Even though newly released, this track is already a relic of arena rock.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Album Review: Velociraptor! - Kasabian



Velociraptor literally means swift seizer which is a spot on description for Kasabian's latest album.

Think, The Rolling Stones raping The Ting Tings.

Seized your attention yet?

With a weird mixture of psychedellia, swagger and even poetry, they are one of the apparent and rightful heir of Britain's long line of rock royalties.

Best track: 
LaFee Verte also known as The Green Fairy is a sophisticated drug that easily gets you high. It starts with what seemed like beautiful insect noises and progresses into a drum driven musing that shifts from indie to neo-psychedellia from verse to another. It then swiftly fades with another set of gallactic sounds after a mindlessly longing "na na na".

Can be a soundtrack to:
Between four and five in the morning when you havent slept for twelve hours and you already had three mugs of coffee.

This album isnt much of a creativity inducing though it is in itself is already a work of creativity.

Also during substance intoxication when you just want to drift away.

Stars: Four!