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is very interesting. I totally dig the way in which Wetnurse are
laying down their metal. Without being overtly experimental they
are somehow managing to create their own ilk of metal. It’s not
easy to digest by any means because it is overtly complicated
and its creation process seems to have been rather fragmented. And it’s obviously not sounding like they are merely trying to
cram a series of different genres within song spaces like some
beefy metalcore vocalist recently said in the issue of an
extreme music magazine. Take the opening song “Conversations
With the Moon” for instance, which lays Wetnure’s plan pretty
bluntly. It opens with acoustic guitars; a western flare is in
the air, the sound of hovering helicopters gives way to metallic
guitars shedding a short riff. It’s a two-way build up that’s
taken almost two minutes. Not long after vocalist Gene Fowler
makes an entrance chewing his lines with an angry big bite. For
the most part he sure is more hardcore than metal so from time
to time a brutal growl is introduced. All doubts as to what
Wetnurse are dissipate when you find yourself six minutes into
the song appreciating a guitar solo that’s gone for about two
minutes and that just keeps on building over swirling riffs and
shifting rhythms. Post rock think not.
Or dude “Not
Your Choice”. The band goes left then right, then left, then
right, then they stop for half a second. A brief solo bristles
through. Insert communal chorus a few seconds there, more rising
wavering guitars, their angular edges slicing through. Shit,
it’s not easy, but Wetnurse are already making music that’s
already 100% their own and you don’t even know them. Hell, I
didn’t even know their music until like three days ago and they
have a four-year-old self-titled album on their backs.
Because of
their approach comparisons are surfacing everywhere. With
writers struggling to offer a better description than ‘the blend
of (insert band name) and (insert band name here)’ what an eager
reader is getting is all the wrong ideas or so many points of
reference one can only end up disoriented. Without attempting to
confuse anyone even further I’d say Invisible City is the
result of four individuals throwing out all their influences;
the startling clash of that shall sound just like this.
Invisible City goes the distance the same way, and that’s
unpredictable.
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