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Before you start wondering, no I haven’t gone
soft and wrote a review of the failed British boy
band 5ive's latest album release, 5ive are infact
an instrumental metal band from Boston Massachusetts
in America and have just released their third full-length
album Hesperus, now most people that have read my
reviews in the past will known I’m not a big
fan of instrumental albums as I tend to get bored
very easily hearing the same riff being played over
and over again for 5 minutes, however I thought
I would give 5ive a fair listen.
The album kicks off with 'Gulls' which starts
off with distorted feedback from the guitars,
heavy drum rolls soon kick in with guitar riffs
coming and going every so often. The song tends
to get a bit repetitive as the drums and guitar
riffs rotate through the whole song. 'Big Sea'
is more of a heavier song it starts off with a
bit of an echoey, stringy guitar introduction
which gets slightly louder as time goes on and
before you know it an assault of heavy guitar
riffs kick in, but once that happens you can sense
what the rest of the song is going to be like
and running at over 7 minutes it tends to get
a bit to boring and repetitive.
'Kettle Cove' is a beast of a track, it’s
pretty fast, features a lot of distortion and
some really fast guitar riffs and the best thing
about the track is it doesn’t out stay its
welcome due to the fact that it’s on for
less than 3 minutes. 'Heel' is another short track
that runs for just over 2 minutes, the track is
extremely chilled out with really laid back guitar
playing.
The album finishes with 'News 1' and 'News 2'
the two tracks combined go on for nearly 21 minutes
and to be honest it does absolutely nothing for
me apart from bore the hell out of me.
Hesperus by 5ive is very experimental, but it
seems to me that the band don’t really know
when to finish a track, the tracks on offer are
either to long or too short, there is no in-between
but then again it could just be me being fussy,
I’d imagine this album would be more enjoyable
locked in a small room whilst stoned.
2/5
Review by Trigger |
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1. Gulls
2. Big Sea
3. Kettle Cove
4. Heel
5. Polar 78
6. News 1
7. News 2 |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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