Oct. 31, 2012 - Issue #889-Human Trafficking Problem
Lovelessness
Bison BC {recordings_bands_mg} Lovelessness {/recordings_bands_mg}
Metal Blade,
4
The newest album from Bison BC proves that tales of heartbreak and loss do not have to sound like the pop flavour of the week, working just as well—or even better—as grounded, gritty, pounding throbs of anger and frustration. Guitarist and vocalist James Farwell, who, by his own admission, took something of an emotional pummeling, chose to work out his frustration in the writing of the band's fourth album.Lovelessness captures the perfect balance between grandiose sprawl and heavy, forceful jams. It's a sound Bison has been working with since its first EP, but here the band has found the sweet harmony of a deep resounding sound, while fully engaged in an unrelenting forward momentum. Grandiose, 10-minute-long tracks drive with such force you cannot help but listen to the album in its entirety. "Last and First Things" embodies the assault: seamless movement between the track's opening echoey drums and a single guitar riff moves into a pummeling, ripping assault; one could spend hours on the repeated echoes of the circular rhythm of "Blood Music"; while "Clozapine Dream" hits the other end with Farwell's gritty vocals and faster paced punk edge.
While still using the expansive outlook found on the album Quiet Earth, this album pulls at the roots of Bison's gritty punk sound and seamlessly mashes the two together in a grounded earthly mess.
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