Russian Circles: Memorial (Sargent House, 2013)
October 30, 2013 at 11:20 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
Russian Circles: Memorial
5th album from heavy post-rock band Russian Circles. Kind of what you’d typically expect from them; heavy, crushing, epic, melodic, instrumental (although Chelsea Wolfe guests on the final track). After a short beatless intro, “Deficit” starts out slower but then warms up after 2 minutes, and keeps with this steady, yet furious tempo for the track’s near-7 minute length. “I777” stretches even longer, keeping a similar tempo with soaring guitars and crashing drums. The rest of the tracks are much shorter, and “Cheyenne” is more drifty and drumless, then “Burial” has a slow heavy beat and metallic riffing. “Ethel” is a little lighter, with some sort of almost folkish melody (Scottish? Irish? maybe?). “Lebaron” is more crushing, swirling riffing with a 5/4 time sig. “Memorial” also has a choppy time signature and features drifty, washed-out vocals by Chelsea Wolfe, whose lovely voice sounds more like another instrument than something actually singing words.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
TrackBack URI
Blog at WordPress.com.
Entries and comments feeds.
The Answer Is In The Beat 
Leave a comment