TIME SILENT RADIO II

So close. Echolyn delivers an album consisting of only two tracks, which excites me as I enjoy when a band lets loose and dedicates itself to developing its music over a long period. However, the main issue with the album becomes apparent right away: the music doesn't develop much. I keep waiting for the band to do something unexpected, to wake me up or take the music in new directions. But it doesn't happen.

Don't get me wrong, the music is great; I enjoy the melodies and the vocals. But there's a limit to how many times you can hear the same verse or riff. When you take a song that should be a maximum of ten minutes and stretch it to over 16 minutes without allowing it to develop, it becomes close to boring. The second track, "Water in our hands," has a first ten-minute period where I want to turn it off every time I listen because they repeat the same music and riff for too long. Just after ten minutes, they make a change and move in a different direction, but it's a period of music that should have been a maximum of five minutes.

There's a lot of good on this album, but to make it better, they needed to shorten each track by at least 30%, or make changes in the songs to break up the music or introduce something unexpected to keep me engaged. Here, it barely happens, and the music chugs along at a similar tempo and in a similar style. The production is brilliant, the music is fantastic, and the band has never sounded better. But it's too drawn out for me to handle. So close to being fantastic, but it doesn't work when I feel like I want to fast-forward the music. Making long tracks requires a special group, and few can do it well. Echolyn is close but doesn't quite get there this time.

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