Numerous influences, six great tracks, two accomplished music makers and one fantastic release! Right, that’s the numbers out of the way; let’s get down to the real job at hand – enjoying the music! And enjoy it you will, especially if rock music is your bag, or if you appreciate more ornately constructed songs, or ones that are abrasive and heavy but also clever. Actually, if you’re a discerning music fan, the wonderfully named The Mechanics of Falling Apart is for you.
At nearly six minutes, ‘Rotors’ is anything but a quick, sucker-punch, grab-their-attention-and-then-move-on opener; I mean, it is a lot of things, but it’s smarter than that. It’s big, grungy, and proggy in its sonic adventurousness. It is music writ large, grand and slightly arabesque. It is a smart weave of the raw and the rewarding, of interlinked textures and tones, influences and inspirations, sounds and styles.
‘The Ash of The Sermon’ might run on more conventional, more addictive grooves, but it is just as impactful, a song rising out of searing post-rock guitarscapes and moving into more subtle, more Seattle-soaked vibes, the song ebbing and flowing through episodes of drive and drama, creschedoic highs and more measured lulls. Again, a long song but which, due to its fluid, ever-evolving nature, passes in a flash.
And proving they can also do the deft and delicate, ‘You Will Yield To Me’ is largely a fractured vocal and an ephemeral guitar, slowly being cocooned by a sea of synthy sonics and the perfect prelude to ‘Fall Apart’, which starts in the same ambient soundscape but ends in blistering metal highs, surrounded by intense energy and incendiary vocals, scything guitars, and crashing drums.
Post-grunge? Post-Metal, Post-Symphonic rock? Post—everything? So diverse and changeable is the ÅHM sound that one simple tag won’t do; the answer lies somewhere between those labels (or you could make your own up, try it, it’s a lot of fun), but, like all music worthy of your time, you shouldn’t dwell on such peripheral concerns and just let the music wash over you. It’s as simple as that. It’s as rewarding as that.
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