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Drudkh - Пригорща зірок (Handful of Stars)

SPIRIT BOMB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - 28%

caspian, October 3rd, 2010

Drudkh's album prior to this was pretty cool, a bit more of a rock influence, some proggy bits, perhaps a bit of post-rock added in even- not a positive or negative in itself, but it was smoothy integrated with Drudkh's fairly trademark big fuzzy walls of sound; ultimately it was a very satisfying listen. Is this album just a logical development on the sound of Microcosmos then? A failed experiment on turning up the rocky stuff to 11? I don't know, but one thing I can confidently say about this album is that it SUCKS.

There was some talk about how this sounded like Alcest and various other projects by sensitive frenchmen; I don't really think that's the case. We've effectively got some very, very tame alt rock- all jangly guitars, open strings a ringin', fairly light distortion- mixed with perhaps a bit of Brave Murder Day era Katatonia, except with none of the catchiness that such a combination would likely imply. Completely forgettable chord progressions (note i didn't call them riffs), the occaisonal pointless little guitar lead. It's not a good sound.

Yeah, I kinda wish that at least they'd rip off Alcest's fairly concise (based on Souvenirs anyway) songwriting for this. Drudkh have always been a fairly repetitive, long winded band but normally it's like Summoning's repetition- the amount of repeats is often fairly ridiculous, but the shit sounds good, so it's no biggy, you know? "Winds of the Night Forests" off Autumn Aurora was three or so riffs repeated for freakin' ages, but it worked because said riffs were rad. Here, the chord progressions are serious weaksauce, and thus things are really awful. Downfall of the Epoch is the worst offender, but all songs are overlong, tired snoozefests of the highest order. What not to do when you're writing shitty music? Repeat it lots of times!

This is just really bad! The songs are no good and said lack of goodness is compounded by repetition. A dreadful, really irritating listen; the only good bits being the fairly cool solo in "The Day Will Come" and the obvious DBZ influence on the cover art.