Awaiting Abigail has come a long way in the short time they have been together, having fired off a dozen cool singles in the same time it takes most rock bands to decide what font their logo should be in.
“Left Out” is the latest, and as it layers up, builds momentum, and adds sonic weight through the intro, you get a neat glimpse of how the band meshes their sound. Affected guitar floats around an anchoring drum beat, before everything explodes into a rock and roll onslaught—the twin guitars’ individual deliveries lock into each other, contrasting yet complementing; solid bass lines join the fray, and keys create a beguiling soundscape as a backdrop for it all.
And then Abigail Hill arrives, the last piece of the sonic jigsaw, her voice slotting into place just enough at odds with the sqaulling sonicsc to provide that same “opposites attract” blend of innocence and danger, humanity and otherworldliness, light and shade, that the likes of Evanessence did so well.
“Left Out” reminds us of Awaiting Abigail’s range, sometimes groovesome and gritty, other times grand and graceful, as at home with the drifting as the driving, as emotive as they are energized. Music that is both big and clever.
Intense enough to be metal, melodic enough to be hard rock, dark-tinged in a way that sees the band border on the gothic realm, and so ornate and creative that they at least give a nod to the progressive rock sound, this is a band with mass appeal. Ones to watch! Definitely ones to watch.
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