Release
date: September 23rd 2016. Label: Neurot Recordings. Format: CD/DD/Vinyl
Fires
Within Fires – Tracklisting
1.Bending
Light 07:47
2.A
Shadow Memory 06:50
3.Fire
Is The End Lesson 06:54
4.Broken
Ground 08:44
5.Reach
10:36
Band
Members:
Scott
Kelly - Guitars & Vocals
Steve
Von Till - Guitars, Vocals, Filters & Textures
Dave
Edwardson - Bass, Moog Synthesizer & Space
Noah
Landis - Organ, Piano, Samples & Atmospheres
Jason
Roeder - Drums
Review:
The
hippie movement, so regulated by boredom, has been gone for awhile
and the governed monolith that stands in its place is called
Neurosis. This band is a force that will obviously never rest.
An
interesting observation is that these guys don't entertain to grand
fashion on the exhibitionist street corner of popular music, but
rather they need to be searched out in dark alleys as they
orchestrate pain into music. Neurosis are no longer young radicals
making noise pollution, they are now seasoned elders who celebrate in
noise therapy.
They
have amassed a large body of musical documentation during their
career; where every album is uniquely different with regard to
experimentation, but universally the same with the gravitational
constant being the sheer spectrum of this band. They are essentially
the salt of the melodious earth and the ultimate peppering for a
curmudgeon palate philosophy.
These
night watchmen understand the motive of sonically sharing a state of
mind through an album and they equally understand the alibi which is
each subsequent album of a yet another different shared experience.
Neurosis
albums are worth something because they evoke living through natural
causes. This band owns the doomsday jukebox, an incessantly whirring
cerebral machinery, spinning a matrix of sound which makes it more
comfortable living in purgatory.
On
this album I detect a blending of all the previous Neurosis eras, as
well as, the distinct sound of forging ahead, all of which is
contemplated with the perfect brevity. No one can truly umpire
Neurosis' musical output, because Neurosis are the arbiters of sound.
A well established group whose brand is a symbol of trust.
"Fires
Within Fires" is yet another meaningful face on their sonic
totem pole. To the songs my "fiends"...
Bending
Light- a great album starter with bombastic chords that segway into
delicate subtleness, only to be viciously broken by telltale vocals
broadcasted as the croak of old door hinges.
A
Shadow Memory-the sounds of descending distortion coupled with lion
heart drums, producing the electricity to power feed your energy
starved sound circuits into fizzle fried traces.
Fire
Is The End Lesson- a whirlwind of trade off vocalizations amidst
soaring horsepower heaviness. The band are cave crickets rubbing
their instruments together to unleash night reverberations with
purpose to jumble the letters of a psycho-analyst's crossword puzzle.
Broken
Ground-this is a sonic contemplation, a molten to hardened substance
forged by the blacksmiths of a different metal genre. The distinct
vocals spew forth from rusty pipes. This has all the mineshaft
weight and artillery atmosphere of triumphantly tunnelling through
rock, only to be trapped by the strangeness of the glowing debris.
Reach-
A song that creates a surrealistic surround sound which dive bombs in
slow motion between gluttonous obesity and a library whisper. The
background noise reminds me of the time a common housefly got stuck
on my turntable stylus. You will be reminded that the disease is
sometimes the cure, so taste the silver as you haemorrhage from
within and bleed from your mind's eye, as if synapses are broken shot
glasses against the metal piano wire of your nervous system. A titan
force. A true album closer of cranking amps and already another
classic Neurosis song.
You
can wrap a dead fish in this review and throw it out with the weekly
garbage, because Neurosis never disappoint. They don't need a
promotion, for they exist solely on momentum...mass and velocity,
magnitude and direction. They mutate and experiment, but the core
remains the same, nothing can go wrong when music is this important.
Neurosis
are the Chessmen in a world of checkers.
Words
by Nick Palmisano
Thanks
to Jack at Rarely Unable PR for the promo. Fires Within Fires is
available to buy on CD/DD/Vinyl now from Neurot Recordings
