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Polars Textures |
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Let me start off this review with saying that I`ve never heard a debut cd that is composed and produced in such a professional and mature way as this one. The band I`m talking about is called Textures and they`re from Holland. Being formed not too long ago in 2001 they now present their debut cd released by themselves. Textures caught my attention when they were being discussed on a rather popular dutch metalforum on the net. I checked out one of the soundclips on their site and was immediately sold. The music is a nice mixture of three of my favourite styles. First of all the main influence is Meshuggah for sure, a band that is wellknown for their extreme tightness, offbeat timing, weird breaks and pounding heavy guitars. Textures don`t have any problems with this style and manage to add something of their own to it, thus not making it a copy, something that only by simply trying needs skillfull muscians with very good ears and total dedication to the genre. The cool thing of Textures is that they also put alot of subtle soundtrack alike synths into the songs, even the use of a saxophone is being used on the 4th song, Transgression, which reminds me of older Sting albums. The last two songs display alot of soundtrack and atmospheric feel this album has, and together last almost for more than 30 minutes(!). Cool note is that almost everyone in the band does vocals or backingvocals, this resuling in some nice background chorus parts, the main vocals are raw and have a hardcore feel to them. What more can I say?
There`s just absolutely nothing to bitch about this album, it totally
got me by the balls and is now spinning in my cdplayer for days. I can
only encourage everybody who has feeling with the abovementioned styles
and influences and dares to listen to something different to just buy
this album and let the music do the talking, you will be stunned for sure. REVIEWER: Joel |
