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Survive Atlantica have just released their debut
album, ‘I Woke The Devil’, the album
is the result of 2 years of hard work and you can
tell within each of the 10 tracks on the album that
writing and recording for ‘I Woke The Devil’
was no straight forward affair as the album is very
experimental, with lots of unexpected twists and
turns, the album takes you on an emotional journey
which is drenched with soft moments but also has
its fair share of loud and dramatic raw moments
to keep your pulse going.
‘I woke The Devil’ was recorded live,
the band decided to do this as they wanted to
capture the moment in time and they also feel
that they have made the best record that they
possibly could and I have to agree with them,
if I was rating this album on how technical and
well crafted it was then it would get 5 out of
5 easily and I simply feel that these guys deserve
a lot of praise and some kind of reward for working
so hard and coming up with such an emotionally
charged album that goes through the motions.
It is pretty hard to pick out favourite tracks
from the album as you can listen to the album
all the way through and think that you have only
listened to one track, even though the album is
on for a good 40minutes it just has that feel
of a 10 tracks crafted into one to make a long
emotional journey.
Instrumentally ‘His Name Was Arthur Leigh
Allen’ was the song that stood out to me
the most on the first listen, due to the way that
it starts with soft soundscapes and then as the
song goes on it builds up in sound with Will Bower’s
vocals changing from soft beats to quite frantic
beats, the guitar riffs towards the middle of
the song are crunching whilst the vocals also
build up from more softly spoken sleepy vocals
to raw emotional screams.
‘We’re All Shipwrecked’ starts
off so chilled out that you will start to wonder
if your CD player is playing up during the first
20 to 30 seconds as everything is so minimal you
really have to turn your speakers up to get anything
out of it, then the vocals come in loud and clear
whilst the instruments slowly build up in the
background, the song runs well into the 6 minute
mark and is actually quite an epic song in the
way that it starts off mellow, slowly builds up
before mellowing down again before a last 1 minute
assault of razor sharp guitar riffs, pounding
drum beats, beautiful basslines and strong shouty
vocals before suddenly returning to the minimal
soundscapes as the song fades out to James Kellegher’s
soft spoken vocals.
The closing track of the album ‘Med’s
is the most upbeat song featured on the album,
it’s another song that builds up throughout
time and runs well into the 6 minute mark again
with no 1 minute being the same.
It’s best to compare Survive Atlantica
to the Brand New but more from the ‘The
Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me’ era
rather than the poppy punk ‘Your Favourite
Weapon’ era, they are not as fun and exciting
as Brand New but they are defiantly as experimental,
I know a lot of people will find Survive Atlantic
boring and will switch off within minutes of listening
to them, but if you persevere and listen to the
album a few times you will appreciate it for its
epic movie soundtrack style feel, the only downside
I can see is how the album is going to go down
with people on the live circuit as it doesn’t
really feature that much get up and go, but only
time will tell.
4/5
Review by Trigger |
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James Kellegher (Vocals, Guitar)
Callie Harrison (Piano, Guitar)
Will Bower (Drums, Vocals)
Joe Turnball (Bass) |
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1. 17:02
2. I Am?
3. His Name Was Arthur Leigh Allen
4. We're All Shipwrecked
5. Epilogue
6. Circuits And The Sea
7. Colour Of Voices
8. Interlude
9. I Woke The Devil
10. Meds |
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Score Code |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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