TIME WILL DIE AND LOVE WILL BURY IT

It's been a real pleasure to follow Rolo Tomassi over the years. It's been a decade since I first heard Astraea, right in the middle of the period where I was convinced that mathcore was a worthless genre, and since then they've done nothing but grow in creative ways. You could hear it back then, what was coming - how else were they album to sell mathcore to someone who can't stand the style? And so it's no surprise that they move into softer pastures with an incredibly refined compositional sense - this isn't your regular heavy-band-goes-soft routine.

I can't say that I think this is a masterpiece, but it's certainly a very creative album and fuses elements of genres that have never really been pushed together. Dream pop, black metal, post-hardcore, progressive rock, ambient, it's all here. Eva Spence sounds as confident making demonic hell sounds as she does under a post-rock delay guitar progression. And the use of dynamics is excellent, a skill that is absolutely necessary if you're going to try the heavy-meets-soft album. They still have some room to grow in terms of the musical ideas, but I feel like this is a band with a very high ceiling, and we could see an era-defining album from them still to come.

7.9 (5th listen)

Part of my listening diary from my facebook music blog - www.facebook.com/TheExoskeletalJunction

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