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No one has rated this album. You can be the first. | Spires - Flowers & Fireworks | Spires – Flowers & Fireworks
Record Label: The Hive
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Before I even listened to Flowers & Fireworks I loved it, at least in part due to the fact that Spires sent me a page they’d torn out of a coloring book, and the fact that the liner notes are printed on a folded up piece of cardboard, and the case is a piece of construction paper literally sewn together at the sides. A+, the review is over.
But it’s not, because I’ve got plenty of other good things to say. For starters, anything that even remotely reminds me of the spacey screamo (the early definition of the word: not the Used) of Majority Rule is an instant classic in my book. This is the kind of music that’ll make you simultaneously depressed and ecstatic to hear, at least, it you’re anything like me. If you’re reading this, we’ll assume you are.
What makes this music so awesome is its movement between simple sprawling guitars and wall-of-sound bursts. It’s not the calculated loud-sound-quiet-sound of every metalcore band out there right now; it’s a natural flowing, feeling-based progression that hooks/captivates/entrances the listener, so that all the sudden the album is over and you realize you’ve been staring at a wall for a really long time. You can classify the music as a blend of post-rock guitars and punk rock drums, or, since words can never do justice to a great formula, you can ditch the tags and check the band out for yourself.
If for some reason you were only able to hear a single track from the album as a sort of appetizer, “Flames for the Strays” is a pretty great example of the Spires sound. The first minute and a half is just straight-forward heavy, and then right at the halfway point comes the creepy lead guitar, and the track veers off in a new direction. As with other bands in this field of music, like the aforementioned Majority Rule, repeated listening makes the album better and better.
It’s groups like this that make us long for something more out of the bland face of contemporary metal (or whatever you want to call that field of music at this point.) Spires are awesome. That’s all there is to it.
Don’t Believe Me?
www.myspace.com/spiresatwar
Recommended If You Like:
Majority Rule, Isis, Haram |
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04:02 PM on 10/19/08 | this is success-this is how we feel hahahahahahaha why did i put that? jeez i'm losing my mind | | |
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07:51 AM on 10/20/08 | This band sounds great from the review. Will def listen later. | | |
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07:51 AM on 10/20/08 | This will give me something to listen to after school today. Thanks! | | |
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10:02 AM on 10/20/08 | Might be seeing them next Thursday with Samothrace and the Makai. | | |
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03:28 AM on 10/23/08 | This sounds fucking awesome so far. | | |
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12:35 AM on 04/22/09 | I heard these guys just recorded 4 new songs for a split with 1994! from PA... and I heard you're getting a copy sent your way as soon as everything is put together. | | |
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