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Krallice - Krallice

Eh? - 45%

caspian, February 25th, 2009

I got this album a little while ago; I knew it had been hyped up a fair bit - the indie kids are loving it, it seems- and so I was expecting a real love it/hate it type thing; either it'd be some hipster shit that I'd love (i.e Isis) or loathe (DsO). Turns out though that it's just somewhere in the middle, a decent but not amazing sort of release. It kind of sounds like someone got a bunch of post rock crecendos, threw them together and put some drums in at double time.

Sounds pretty good in practise, then, but overall it's fairly mediocre. There's a few moments where the tremelo picking comes together into a glorious wall of sound, but otherwise it's not terribly memorable. As is to be expected from a bunch of guys in tech bands, the band is really good on their respective instruments and have no problem showing that; it's a nice change from the usual no-frills style that most bands of this ilk employ.

I dunno, it's a relatively unique sound- certainly dissonant post rock/black metal hasn't been done very often - but it just gets so boring. It's not very dynamic, the riffs aren't interesting in the slightest, the songs unnecessarily long. I kind of get the feeling that in their obsession with being different, Krallice forgot that certain musical traditions - various chord progressions, dynamics, using structure effectively - exist for a fairly good reason. Deep and meaningful? Hardly, but I'll admit that with the stretched out arrangements, strange lyrics and walls of sound it's rather easy to think so. Krallice- not very good at making music, perhaps, but rather good at marketing.

To conclude then.. well, it's rather boring? Unique, perhaps, with a few enjoyable moments here and there (final song is alright) but sleep-inducing and super repetitive. The fact that this got praised to the skies just goes to show just how mediocre a year 2008 was.