They say that you only get one chance to make a good first impression. If that is the case, then as an initial taste of Dying Habit’s latest album, There Is No Sky, “Three Letter View” makes a perfect and memorable introduction. It seems to land like a sharp, melodic jab—direct, dynamic, and unmistakably the band running at full strength. Or put another way, the sound of what the band does best…only better! Here, they raise their own personal stakes and redraw their own creative benchmarks.
Beneath its hook-laden surface lies a deeper current, one that explores the intricate dialogue between body and mind. It’s a meditation on vibration—how frequencies ripple through us, shifting our emotional states, bending time and memory, and unlocking unseen dimensions. At its core, it’s a question as old as music itself: why do we feel the way we do, and what hidden forces pull the strings? Is the answer to be found in the song…well, in a way, yes, at least in the way that the answer is found, in part in all music. But with “Three Letter View,” the lyrics pose the question and the music answers. But maybe I am overthinking things a bit.
What is clear, though, is that Dying Habit understands that making an impact, getting noticed in an already overstocked sonic pool, doesn’t rely merely on volume and velocity. I mean, they have that going on, sure. Still, they also have drifting, almost-psychedelic guitar interludes and understated passages (relatively speaking), anthemic moments that you can see growing in real time rather than the more obvious, clichéd punky sucker punch change in dynamic that lesser bands would think so cool.
“Three Letter View” is the sound of a band balancing big sounds with clever dynamics, intensity with intrigue, melody with muscle, and doing so more deftly than most bands can even dream of.
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