There’s big music, and then there is “Home,” the new one from Hobart, Australia based Verticoli. I don’t mean just big in the way that metal bands make their gargantuan and usually unappealing sound; this isn’t just an exercise in volume and velocity and everyone playing too much and all at once.
No, “Home” is the sound of a band weaving sonic strands together and around and above and beyond each other so that nothing gets in the way of each other. It is the sound of a band making the right sonic choices to build a muscular and still melodic sound. It is the sound of just three people creating something intricate and still imposing. In short, it is music that is big, but also clever. And that doesn’t come along all that often.
This first single off the upcoming album Silverlinings speaks volumes, figuratively and literally, suggesting, like their previous album, The Echo, that something special is on its way. It is special because it tells us that quality heavy music is not dead, that alternative rock has a new lease of life, and that music, in general, has a glorious new future ahead of it.
It looks like rock and roll is back on the menu.
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