The Bled - Heat Fetish
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Dead and DivineNorma Jean
Poison the Well
Release Date
03/09/2010
Label
Rise RecordsTracklist
1. Devolver2. Mouthbreather
3. Running Through Walls
4. Smoke Breaks
5. Need New Conspirators
6. Shouting Fire in a Crowded Room
7. Needs
8. Meet Me in the Bone Orchard
9. Crowbait
10. When Exiting Your Vehicle
11. Night Errors
12. Crawling Home
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The Bled have always tread on the more intellectual side of heavy, melding post-hardcore, screamo, angular Botch-isms, sprawling Poison the Well influenced arrangements (with plenty of melody interjected into the proceedings), and the all-important breakdown into one simmering cauldron of progressive hardcore rage. The end product has yielded sometimes uneven and sometimes wildly successful results, but things have never gotten stale. Following the departure of three members last year, The Bled’s fourth studio album, Heat Fetish, comes at an interesting crossroads in the band’s career.
Many fans were disappointed with 2007’s The Silent Treatment, feeling betrayed by some of the more obvious or refined moments of the disc, though much of the criticism levied against the album was unfair. Those same fans will be increasingly alienated by Heat Fetish, as it continues down the same path as The Silent Treatment. Heat Fetish definitely plays as the sequel to The Silent Treatment, and things are more streamlined here then ever before. Critics will call it stagnation, but it’s not as if they’ve completely abandoned what made their first two discs so good; this outing is more a perfection of a sound they’ve been working at for years. The contents of Heat Fetish are signature The Bled through and through.
Heat Fetish is reminiscent of Every Time I Die’s New Junk Aesthetic in the sense that it signals a refinement of the band’s sound and a combination of elements from their back-catalogue with a few surprises to keep things interesting. The upside is that The Bled have never sounded tighter, and Heat Fetish is their most consistent album to date. The downside is that some of the volatility of their previous efforts is missing, thus evening things out, which means the misses are gone, but so are the utterly transcendent moments. There’s an air of business-as-usual to the album, which is fine when the end product is this good, but—and this is where the disc differs from New Junk Aesthetic–whereas ETID used their past as a springboard, The Bled use this album as a tidy recap of their history, ultimately leaving greatness just out of reach. More of the same? Yeah... but still damn good.
--Jake Oliver
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Enjoyed Pass the Flask but found this album to be really bad.
Atascadero, CA
i wanted to like this, esp after the first couple songs surfaced online.. i thought it was going to have potential to be awesome. but having said that ive only maybe spun this record twice, and have no desire to revisit it again.
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Minnesota
I actually enjoy this disc... but it figures I would like this album when everyone else won't since I'm the dude who still thinks Found in the Flood is their best album :-)
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Infinitely Inwards
Guttershark still gets my blood pumpin at the gym. As for this album, I heard it all before; but it is still good for them to have this sound after so long. I likes it.
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Lehigh Valley, PA
Yuck.
Kansas
Ya I found this to be terrible. I very much enjoyed Silent Treatment though.
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Green Brook, NJ
how people can not like this, when they liked silent treatment, is beyond me. heat fetish is just a tightening of the sound from the last album. there's nothing drastically different at all on it.
Senegal Africa
yeah im confused too at how people can hate this album but some how still enjoy silent treatment....brain does not compute. This record to me is a lot more consistent than silent treatment.
Listening to:
fuckin african mosques (Tang na bu baax)
Lehigh Valley, PA
The last album of theirs I liked was Pass The Flask.
Highlands
This genre of music is dead. Move on people.
Raleigh, NC