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I
was
only half right when I imagined how Syrens would sound
like. Since I am familiar with some of the Cavity
releases I was expecting the exact expanding sounds that
are featured here. Post rock? Sure thing. Ups and downs?
Couldn’t live without ‘em. There is plenty of that here.
Expansion and retraction? Double check and even tripled?
Moments of heaviness counterbalanced by nuanced calm?
Yeah, kinda.
But on
another plane Syrens are more of a technical hardcore band.
Especially because the vocalist has one of those blistering
rawer than raw and in the flesh throat out approaches. And yeah,
he is the most monotonous aspect of this excellent band. He of
the name Terrance Delaney is a man of one feeling, and that’s
somewhere between pained and angered, which either way go the
negative way. Listening to him will leave your skin scratched.
Could we
call Syrens a post hardcore band? Yes. Definitely. But that’s
just irrelevant.
Listening to
these songs will very likely make your day. Syrens have recorded
a pretty impressive EP. It takes some digging to find the gold
though. Simple perusing just won’t cut it. Middle cut
“Metamorphosis” is great. Five minutes of balanced guitars
constantly hopping between heaviness and not so heavy heaviness.
But I’ve heard about a dozen cuts that sound like it. That’s
like post rock at its most formulaic. But check “The People vs
the Mother Wolf” and try not to be impressed by Syrens’
pummeling force, jaw dropping mathematical construction and
jazzed up meddling.
“May
Armageddon Reign in These Hands” is ridiculously good. The
Dillinger Escape Plan haven’t sounded this alive for like a
decade and leave it to these four Texans to rip the scene a new
one. It’s four minutes of hysteria.
I am never
one to ask for gentle singers, but a less lopsided approach
would have helped Syrens quite a lot. The textures are all over
the music, so why can’t they be represented vocally too?
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