At the Soundawn - Red Square: We Come in Waves
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IsisNeurosis
Time To Burn
North
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Lifeforce RecordsTracklist
1. Slight Variations2. Sobmerged
3. One Day Before
4. Phone Will
5. Sundown In Rome
6. Rain Falls
7. Frames Of You
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Italy is a breathtaking country full of culture and tradition, a simplistic lifestyle surrounding family, friends and most importantly, delicious food. However, it’s not an often occurrence in Italy to find musical acts who bring a “new” direction to their genres and aren’t a) a variation of trance, euro, house, etc, or b) Nek. Enter Modena, Italy’s At The Soundawn. They are the newest band to sign their lives over to Lifeforce Records in the hopes of following in the successful footsteps of retired roster favourites Between The Buried & Me, Trivium, and current Lifeforce darlings Caliban.
Throughout their 7 song, 29 minute debut, Red Square: We Come In Waves, At The Soundawn bring the listener on a journey of experimentation through the use of morosely chic painted boulevards twisting and converging into jaggedly picturesque sonic landscapes. A clear example of the aforementioned is on the band's standout track, “Rain Falls”. The song begins with an echo of reverb before vocalist Mirco Migliori chimes in with a bludgeoning pace along with some intricately interesting guitar work to set the tone for about one minute and forty seconds before breaking apart into a mind-numbingly pointless interlude. This intermission instantly takes the track from a state of “Whoa, holy shit!” to a lesser state of “What the fuck was that for?” This confusing clash of sounds makes it abundantly evident that At The Soundawn has not truly found their defining sound and are merely wandering the edge of dangerous and wondrous with a blind eye.
The amalgamation of orderly and upbeat segments throughout the disc's entirety, used to counteract the dark, chaos ridden aspects of Red Square, are often unwarranted, constantly backfiring to create dull holes the size of a chasm resembling the album's simplistic artwork. Though there may be moments of intangible promise or sheer brilliance held within At The Soundawn, it has yet to be coaxed out to its fullest extent on Red Square: We Come In Waves.
--Daniel Alcinii
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