PASTEL
- 'L'acchiappa Nuvole' 12" review
PASTEL
are an awesome two-piece from Italy who play with a real fusion of
styles, from emo, screamo, and punk rock, to post-hardcore, with some
great riffing and chords combined with a brilliant sense of
underlying melody, and some seriously intense drumming that thrashes
between grinding blasts, double time, and technical tom and
cymbal-work at such a pace as to make your head swim. All of this is
broken up by interludes of cleaner and delayed guitar work, fuzzy
soundscapes, and even some rather beautiful piano. The high-pitched
shouted vocals are minimal, and the cool thing about this album is
that as well as the full-band ten tracks, this also contains the entire thing without
any vocals, for those that prefer or are in the mood for an
instrumental version. The artwork is awesome too and the lyrics are
printed in both English and Italian which is nice. A cracking,
musically awesome album that has a very wide appeal for the genre
ground that it covers. Great stuff. Check out 'Il Lancio Karman' on
our tape, and also the end of 'La Scatola, il Crocevia' for one of
the greatest riffs ever.
xox
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