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10/10/08, 08:40 AM
Commodor – Driving Out of Focus
Record Label: Distile
Release Date: October 9, 2008
Who?
Geneva, Switzerland’s answer to the nu-metal/post-hardcore of groups like Blindside (i.e., groups that make you go “Oh yeah! They exist.”)
How is it?
There’s a lot to love in their Fugazi-esque strumming (“Liquid Fire”) and ugly discordant arpeggios (“Panavision”), but by the end of the album it all gets a little bit repetitive and boring (see the much-too-long “Everlasting Swamps of Sorrow”). There’s one mood stretched out for the whole EP, and although none of the music is bad, there’s just little about it that catches your ear. It’s all been done before.
“Don Starsky” steps outside of the painted corner for a moment with shades of Off Minor in its bass melody, but the moment is too short. The rhythms are pretty sweet too, so make sure that if you can only hear one track from Driving Out of Focus, it’s that one. But other than that…
Track Listing
01. Liquid Fire
02. Panavision
03. Don Starsky
04. Goats on the Cliff
05. Drifting Figures
06. Dune
07. Tolt
08. Everlasting Swamps of Sorrow
Recommended if You Like
Blindside, Jawbox, The Fatal Flying Guiloteens
Judge For Yourself
www.myspace.com/commodorcommodor
Record Label: Distile
Release Date: October 9, 2008
Who?
Geneva, Switzerland’s answer to the nu-metal/post-hardcore of groups like Blindside (i.e., groups that make you go “Oh yeah! They exist.”)
How is it?
There’s a lot to love in their Fugazi-esque strumming (“Liquid Fire”) and ugly discordant arpeggios (“Panavision”), but by the end of the album it all gets a little bit repetitive and boring (see the much-too-long “Everlasting Swamps of Sorrow”). There’s one mood stretched out for the whole EP, and although none of the music is bad, there’s just little about it that catches your ear. It’s all been done before.
“Don Starsky” steps outside of the painted corner for a moment with shades of Off Minor in its bass melody, but the moment is too short. The rhythms are pretty sweet too, so make sure that if you can only hear one track from Driving Out of Focus, it’s that one. But other than that…
Track Listing
01. Liquid Fire
02. Panavision
03. Don Starsky
04. Goats on the Cliff
05. Drifting Figures
06. Dune
07. Tolt
08. Everlasting Swamps of Sorrow
Recommended if You Like
Blindside, Jawbox, The Fatal Flying Guiloteens
Judge For Yourself
www.myspace.com/commodorcommodor