Fading Waves - The Sense Of Space - review
Fading Waves - The Sense Of Space - review
Tracklist
01. Air02. Flashes
03. Destroying The Time
04. Perforate The Sky
05. Through The Veins
A review by
BitterCOld March 21, 2012
Fading Waves, in addition to being the band name, is probably a good enough starting point to describe the music. Waves can be beautiful and serene, gently lapping at the shore. They can also swell, crash upon the shore with a subtle ferocity that can drag surfers to their death. Gnarly, brah.
The album starts off innocently enough with "Air" and "Flashes", a nice, serene build up and some entrancing female vocals and continues along with lots of Explosions In The Sky style post-y developments. Clean guitar tones with reverb that slowly and gradually build in intensity.
Just as the songs ebb, flow, and grow, so does the album as a whole as with, say, Ulver's Bergtatt. The album grows from tranquil water, light and clean with beautiful female vox to raging, stormy seas with growls, distortion-pedal aided post-riffs, and even some guitar solos.
By the time the album ends with "Through The Veins", is almost surprising how far the album has come from the opening until close. Perhaps even more surprising how it escalated to that crescendo without any particular abrupt turns.
While the album was perhaps more enjoyable than I thought it would be (what, me with my "post-metal traumatic stress disorder" and all), ultimately it isn't particular innovative in a very crowded field of acts. But I guess that is present in all genres of music, eh?
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 7 |
| Songwriting: | 7 |
| Originality: | 7 |
| Production: | 8 |
Written on 21.03.2012 by
Written on 21.03.2012 by
BitterCOld has been officially reviewing albums for MetalStorm since 2009. Comments
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Weird how the blackgaze movement got so tedious in a short time but the Post-metal stuff still brings something good at least, even if the originality factor is more or less absent it is still great to say the least loved the review and will be checking this soon
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FUCK YES! Thanks for the review Craig. I have been digging this "band" since their EP "Please Wait" came out. Alexey states on his website that influences are Rosetta, Cult of Luna, and Isis. No wonder, right? Also, an observation by me: This is what Mikael Akerfeldt would sound like if he did post-metal 
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Posts: 5289 Written by InnerSelf on 21.03.2012 at 10:42 This on on my 2011 best of list!! I knew you'd remember 
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Posts: 2800 Written by tea[m]ster on 21.03.2012 at 17:20 I knew I had seen the name of the band before xD Written by tea[m]ster on 21.03.2012 at 17:20 Rosetta, Isis and Mikael Akerfeldt ... checking it NOW 
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Posts: 5289 Written by InnerSelf on 21.03.2012 at 17:35 Be sure to check out their EP "Please Wait". You can download it for free on their website! http://fadingwavesband.com/releases.html
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Posts: 2800 Written by tea[m]ster on 21.03.2012 at 19:29 Will do
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Wow, what a great review! Flows well as the album itself I guess, and the description is both detailed and artistic.
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Posts: 5289 Written by InnerSelf on 22.03.2012 at 00:52 Inner, you and I are gonna take over the post-metal world!!
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Posts: 2800 Written by tea[m]ster on 23.03.2012 at 21:52 I still can't seem to get bored of all the Post-Metal stuff coming out from everywhere, thanks to your thread I guess
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Posts: 5289 Written by InnerSelf on 24.03.2012 at 00:31 The genre is fast becoming over-saturated but with a little time and effort their are gems out their waiting to be discovered! Like this one!
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