TALONS - 'New Topographics' review
"My
old band SPERARE were fortunate enough to play with TALONS a fair few
years back, and I do recall being blown away by their dual-violin
accompanied instrumental post-rock. What we have here is a little
more ambient and soundscape driven than what I remember of their last
album, 'Hollow Realm', with a few songs dedicated solely to textures
of the hum of ringing guitars, and violin melodies, creating epic,
sweeping soundscapes. There are still plenty of colossal riffs here
though, coupled with epic guitar melodies, with songs like 'Lunar
Gloss' and 'The Wild Places' showing their ability to contrast both
to beautiful effect, as well as some awesome, fuzzy distorted bass,
and pounding drum work that is at times fast and technical, while at
others sounding brilliantly mechanical, shining especially in the
sublime 'The Dreams Have No Dream', which features not only the most
intense and noisy section of the album at the end, which massively
took me by surprise, but also a couple of my favourite melodies on
here. A brilliant, and at times haunting, experimental piece of work
by a band that have the layering of sounds and textures down to a
tee, from every piece of feedback and percussionary click, to every
underlying melody. Mesmerising."
xox
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