Densely layered and intriguing, this hardcore outpouring of emotions, at first loving and then increasingly harsh, building with the music, as things go sour. The Wayward is a painfully raw and open track about stepbrother relationships that is an ambitious composition welding pop, industrial like sensibilities to the already rich blend of styles. The switch between the two sides of Breaths split personality is seamless and, on this track, overall is used to great effect with the pleading delicate vocal and airy guitar underpinned by gargled backing vocals and thumping bass drums. The Matriarch is another complex track that ebbs and flows between the impassioned screams and the heartfelt caress of almost anthemic indie-lite moments that recall the excellent recent works from the likes of Chrome Waves and Deafheaven’s almost entirely light Infinite Granite. The lyrics form a huge part of the mood that hangs over the track as the space, created by the interplay between the instruments, brings no relief before the full-on black metal rock out. This urgent, tense atmosphere continues onto The Empty with uneasy tempos and time changes. One of the most out and out heavy tracks on the album, it forms a musical lynchpin at the heart of Though life… that walks the line between the post-hardcore edge of nu metal bands and progressive metal shifting guitar work. This pounding builds a segue into the tribal drums of The Tormented. Robert’s voice is entirely clean in delivery, revealing a soulful, searching lyric that asks the questions of ‘What if?’ before the track takes a darker turn towards the end and crushes a downtuned late era Deftones riff into the ground.Įvery instrument is used to perfectly overlap a range of techniques, it all sounds fantastic, reinforcing that Jason Roberts is hands down one talented dude…
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In spite of this frenetic energy, it remains wistful, tender and full of love. The up-tempo drumming keeps the track driving towards the huge breakdown chorus full of double bass and swelling chords. The Patriarch builds on a light indie guitar motif that’s almost Yawning Man like, and the lyrics continue with the theme of being barely able to remember the name of someone close. Lyrically the song deals with loss of someone close in both savage and mournful turns equally, the complexity of pain and relationships laid bare in an emotional, tumultuous track that is laced with synths and the teasing lead work that has come to be a staple of blackgaze.
Its come as no surprise that Neige’s post-black metal outfit and the Sacramento post rockers are both cited as influences. The switching contrast between the angelic and the feral flows like the transitions in blackgaze, perfected by Alcest, then brought to wider attention by Deafheaven.
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The album starts with a bang, no drawn-out introduction, straight into a juddering, smashing riffs and rasping vocal, like a black metal version of the Deftones giving a sense of free fall as the hammering descends into melodic, choral lamenting. Just a quick glance at the titles of the six tracks that make up Though life… The Elders, The Patriarch, The Tormented, The Empty, The Matriarch, and The Wayward will tell you that this is an artist who has taken a scalpel to his own psyche in pursuit of the inspiration that compels an artist to embrace the negative, then channel it into something positive. (to give it the full title) is an intense affair that very much documents Robert’s own internal struggles, articulating both hope and despair in equal measure through a kaleidoscope of musical variations that encompasses post-metal, blackgaze, post-hardcore and dalliances with the progressive. Though life has turned out nothing like I imagined, it is far better than I could have dreamt.
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