El Caco - Hatred, Love & Diagrams - review
El Caco - Hatred, Love & Diagrams - review
Tracklist
01. After I'm Gone02. Hatred
03. Autopsy
04. Equivalence
05. Go Forward
06. Confessions
07. Sixty To Zero
08. Skeleton
09. She Said
10. Disconnect
A review by
Doc G. February 04, 2012
It's a swaggering, dark prog rock built with a lot of attention to detail. It's emotional and passionate, yet there is still a cold sort of feeling that gives it a sense of despair. Hatred, Love & Diagrams is sort of a nice fence where technical prowess meets raw emotion. More times than not, bands tend to swing too far in one direction or another; some personal message outweighing songwriting, or too much showy technique, and no emotion. El Caco definitely manage to not only balance out these two aspects, but use each to enhance the other. The transfer from massive riff to massive riff is a nice display of skill behind the guitars & bass, but the champion of this album is definitely drummer Fredrik Wallumrød, who swings from basic rock jams to complicated drum patterns with controlled precision, even while the music is at it's mellowest. The riffs have that massive appeal, almost sounding like a Tool-meets-Pelican sort of hybrid, but everything is enhanced by the desperation behind the vocals to give it that emotional edge.
Hatred, Love & Diagrams quite a nice little prog album, for sure, but it isn't quite a home-run. For one, the vocals do have a tendency to get a bit grating by the end, a bit squeeky you could say. Their main issue seems to lie in the same ballpark as their obvious musical mentors; the massive riffs which lie in-between each of the high points sound incredible at first, but their repetition in almost every track gives the album a very samey feel by the end.
Hatred, Love & Diagrams is a nice, slightly more simplistic, radio-friendly take on prog, but engaging enough to let yourself drift off into.
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"Their main issue seems to lie in the same ballpark as their obvious musical mentors; the massive riffs which lie in-between each of the high points sound incredible at first, but their repetition in almost every track gives the album a very samey feel by the end." And this is why, my children, Mora doesn't like Tool.
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Posts: 18615 Written by Milena on 04.02.2012 at 12:33 You fucking suck Needless to say I don't think Tool has that problem at all.  One of the few prog stuff I enjoy all the time.Will check this out of curiosity . I can only take so much prog but let's see if I dig them.
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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This album sounds interesting, should check it out.
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---- 7.0 means the album is good
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Posts: 18615 Written by Milena on 04.02.2012 at 13:43 As always, I didn't really this. But whatever, my feelings are still hurt  At least we agree with the gothic awards
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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Posts: 4603 Written by X-Ray Rod on 04.02.2012 at 14:09 Yes, that's more than what I find in common with some other people 
---- 7.0 means the album is good
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Tool meets Pelican... Added El Caco to bands to check out. Edit: Checked a couples of tracks and I prefer the instru parts to the actual singing parts. I just cant get into his tone. Don't know why.
---- You cannot sedate all the things you hate - MM The Observer is the source of reality - Bloom God damn it!! What did Diddy didn't do? - Satan
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Not much of a Tool fan, but I do like Pelican. Sounds like a blast.
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Checked them out after the great review, not bad at all. Missing a little bit of something in each department, but a good listening experience nevertheless.
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El Caco???? Lol, that is slang for "the thief" in my country, can't believe they are Norwegian. I'll do my best to like this band so I can tell people here "I listen to El Caco" Nah seriously, If it sounds like tool I should check this. It is a strange phenomena that whenever a "new style" shows up and a lot bands follow the trend everything is cool but if you sound like Tool, you are to be crucified
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