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Portugal seem to be breeding a lot of alternative bands recently and the
four piece band Larkin are another band from Portugal that are hoping for
success across the world with their debut album 'Every Living Day Begs The
Question' just finished and ready to be released on the 7th May through
Mother Should Know Records in the UK.
'Every Living Day Begs The Question' is a record that is full of energy
and a lot of noise. The album starts off with 'A Creative Context’,
which opens with a heavy assault of guitars, bass and drums with Paulo's
screamo noisy vocals sitting nicely over the top. The song has a lot of
musical breakdowns that you just couldn’t predict.
The heaviness of 'Retrospect' will probably appeal to a lot of people,
the song is pure noisy with a few mellow breakdowns before everything
picks up again with Paulo's vocals sounding louder and angrier than ever.
Same with the heaviness of 'He Image' with its fast guitar playing and
fast vocals to match.
Not everything on the album is hectic and noisy such as the toned down
‘Motive’, which features really toned down guitar playing,
quite listenable vocals that do verge on screamo for about 10 seconds
before backing down again. 'Foreword' is a slightly average instrumental
track and provides a break halfway through the album.
The highlight on the album for me is track seven, 'Signs Of Liberation'
which features some great shout-a-long vocals where Paulo nearly forgets
to come up for a breather over some constant heavy drumming, great stuff.
Larkin make good music but the problem is that they are making similar
music to so many bands around at the moment and I think they are going
to find it hard to stand out from the rest of the bands and lead the pack,
but are still an interesting band, check them out if you get the chance.
3/5
Review by Trigger |
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Paulo (Vocals)
Ricardo (Bass, Vocals)
Ivo (Guitar)
Hugo (Drums) |
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1. A Creative Context
2. Retrospect
3. Motive
4. The Image
5. Foreword
6. By The Leash
7. Signs of Liberation
8. Inject Some Blood
9. The End
10. Break The Old, Built The New
11. Culture Seeks Acceptance |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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