Release
date: June
07th
2019. Label: Hydra
Head Records.
Format: CD/DD/Vinyl
Final
Transmission
– Tracklisting
1.Final
Transmission 02:02
2.All
Illusion 03:35
3.Shake
My Blood 04:16
4.Night
Crawler 03:12
5.Lunar
Day 02:22
6.Winter
Window 04:40
7.Lanterna
03:54
8.Strange
Reflection 04:06
9.Led
To The Wolves 03:12
Members
Stephen
Brodsky
JR
Conners
Adam
McGrath
Caleb
Scofield
Review
Final
Transmission is the new album from legendary rockers – CAVE IN –
and is the last album to feature Caleb Scofield who sadly passed
away last year. Final Transmission acts as a fitting tribute to Caleb
and is perhaps one of the best records CAVE IN have released in
years.
The
album takes you on quite a journey with the band playing different
elements and sounds they’ve played through their entire career.
Though this album has their classic “Space Rock” sound they used
early on in their career. CAVE IN still play a heavy mix of Sludge
Rock, Noise Rock, Post Hardcore and Doomed Out Sounds for a richly
rewarding and deeply engaging journey from start to finish.
The
opening songs such as: Final Transmission, All Illusion and Shake My
Blood – sees CAVE IN playing heavy psychedelic sounds with
emotionally complex lyrics with excellent vocals to match. Shake My
Blood is perhaps the standout song on the album as it fuses the
classic “CAVE IN” sound with a more progressive space rock style
of music. The gloomy atmospherics allows the song to soar to greater
heights and leaves you wanting more.
CAVE
IN don’t forget their Metalcore or Post-Hardcore roots on this
album. As the band play a chaotic style of those genres on the later
stages of the album and allows Final Transmission to grow naturally.
The band seem keen to play with people’s expectations with this
record as the album doesn’t follow the standard CAVE-IN journey.
However, Final Transmissions is a much bolder album that I originally
expected.
The
most aggressive songs on the album are Night Crawler and Led To The
Wolves as CAVE IN unleash waves of aggressive Post-Hardcore sounds
that show you the band haven’t forgotten to play more direct and
angrier songs.
Though
it’s the more psychedelic moments on the album where CAVE IN
ultimately impress the most. The Post-Rock/Post-Metal atmospherics is
quite beautiful to listen to at times especially on Lunar Day, Latena
and Strange Reflection.
The
production on Final Transmission is first-rate and offers the
listener an exciting and vibrant sound that only CAVE IN can deliver.
If this is the last ever album that CAVE IN release, then they can go
with their heads held high knowing they’ve delivered one of their
most powerful and dynamic albums of their career.
Words
by Steve Howe
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