THE OCEAN AND THE SUN

The fist album I heard from The Sound Of Animals Fighting was "The Tiger and The Duke" and I thought it was really good and made me think of The Fall Of Troy a little bit but with this album they completely difference themselves from that genre. Everything is so well structured! Every song is a masterpiece with their own "thing" that gets to you and keeps you hooked. The first listen won't get you addicted of course but this album really grows on you. The more you'll listen to it the more you'll like it or even love it.

The band offers great experimentations and melodies. What I really like about the melodies on the album is that they are adapted to an "abnormal" structure and they fit perfectly. Some melodies extend to 5 measures and they are able to fit perfectly 9/8 and 7/8 time signatures one after another. Some bands use weird time signatures and the result plain sucks but not with this band. They really mastered the complexities that music can have and it shows.

At first I thought the interludes weren't necessary but it's inevitably a part of the album. It was made this way for a reason and they add a certain feel to the whole thing. They take you from one track to another. They tell you about the band's philosophy. Even in some tracks there is some narrating in other languages than English like Arabic and French. I don't understand the Arabic but it's still beautiful t hear and it's a glimpse of another culture. I think that's what the band wanted to put in their album : unity.

5/5