Independent Release
Genre: Progressive Metal
Track Listing:
1. Backfired
2. Clandestine
3. I'm Absolute
4. Feel The Flight
5. Tired Of The Past
6. This Time Will Come
7. Where No Grown Up Grapes
While
some other super groups end up sounding like an unimaginative, clumsy melding
of different well-known bands, EscapeTheCult is an entity unto itself. The band
is comprised of Primus/A Perfect Circle drummer Tim Alexander, King Diamond
guitarist Mike Wead, vocalist Matthieu Romarin of Uneven Structure, and the
band’s mastermind, Kamlath bass player Peter G. Shallmin. This cauldron of
musical excellence combines to form one of the most multifaceted records you’ll
hear in 2014.
‘All You Need To’ has a
beautifully soulful quality to it that feels organic from note to note. Nothing
on this album feels forced, and yet there’s so much delivered within the seven
tracks. There are plenty of metal riffs and guitar solos, there are more
ambient, almost new wave tinges, and a lot of jazz influence to be heard. This
melting pot is nicely topped off with Romarin’s smooth yet powerful singing voice.
There’s
a wide array of emotional connotation on show here; ‘Clandestine’ has an innocent joyfulness to it. Then there’s the
more brooding and thoughtful ‘I’m
Absolute’. ‘Feel The Flight’ is a brilliantly realised song; uplifting
with hope and full of spirit, which can be as easily credited to the more
subtle nuances of the music as to the sumptuous vocal melody. To say there’s a
lot going on is an understatement, yet everything has enough breathing space,
preventing the songs from getting bogged down.
All
too often an album is professed to take the listener on a journey, but ‘All You Need To’ does exactly that, and
it achieves this through the purest means. This is not a record that will try
pretentiously to challenge your perceptions of what heavy music can be, instead
this is four very achieved musicians coming together to create art, and like
all accomplished artworks it will draw you in again and again. Here’s hoping
that this is not a flash in the pan, as it would be great to see what else EscapeTheCult
are capable of in the future.
Rating: 8/10
Links: https://www.facebook.com/EscapeTheCvlt?fref=ts
https://escapethecult.bandcamp.com/releases
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