Ea - Au Ellai review
Band: | Ea |
Album: | Au Ellai |
Style: | Funeral doom metal |
Release date: | February 25, 2010 |
A review by: | KwonVerge |
01. Aullu Eina
02. Taela Mu
03. Nia Saeli A Taitalae
One year after their second work, Ea manage to return with Au Ellai. This time the cover artwork is simply magnificent, contrasting between utter black and warm colours, with the birds flying ahead through a fiery horizon. A very good first impression since it catches your eye and prepares your interest for something beautiful.
As the album begins it gives you the impression as if the vocals play an even more important role this time, well, they do, but don't get fooled, Ea's number one role still remains the music and the vocals partake whenever needed, enriching the overall scenery with several grunts. This time though, the music is composed so as to host more vocal lines (maybe they learnt more words from this ancient language or something). The slow guitar riffing and harmonies, as in Ea II, keep their co-headline part along with the keyboards, sharing almost the same amount of expression, completing one another. And for the first time, the drummer seems more vivid, well, don't think he blastbeats the place down, he just offers himself some slightly groovier moments in order not to die from boredom, well, a funeral doom metal drummer's curse. Lament overtakes the emotional expression, with the unavoidable additions of threatening passages that try to escalate the attention of the listener.
Yet, the album fails when compared to its predecessors. There where Ea Taesse succeeds in keeping your interest at high levels with its majestic feeling and Ea II wins your admiration in terms of more diversity and different ambiance when compared to the debut album, Au Ellai, being almost a mixture of elements from both their previous works, seemingly mature, it fails to keep your interest burning, it falls in the trap of tiring and proving that the different characters of Ea II and Ea Taesse when blended together the way the band did, doesn't work. Maybe the recipe just doesn't fit together, maybe it requires another ingredient, maybe it was a step backwards after all, I don't know, all I know is that the third album couldn't embrace me the way the band did in the recent past. It could be the limited ammount of time in which they managed to release their third attempt, only one year, whereas Ea II appeared 2-3 years after the birth of Ea Taesse for which actually we don't know how much time did it take to compose. And how can we, we don't even know who this band actually is, we'd know how much time did it take to compose their debut?
All in all, I'd suggest listening to the albums the way they released them, don't be seduced by the enormous cover artwork, yet, give it a shot and see what it has to tell you after you have cherished the band chronologically.
Rating breakdown
Performance: | 8 |
Songwriting: | 6 |
Originality: | 7 |
Production: | 8 |
![]() | Written on 21.09.2010 by "It is myself I have never met, whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind." |
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