PEACE

They've clearly put a huge amount of effort into this, as they state on their Bandcamp page for the album, two years looking into historical events from the last 130 years on the war and peace theme, pulling it all together into a huge concept album. Thing is if you're going to take on a topic this huge, the music needs to have some depth. Perhaps a because of wanting to stay true to the absolute facts they've researched, and maybe a little due to writing lyrics in a second language, it's all just too literal, too on the nose.

Lyrics such as: "It's a very hot day In a damn warm country Ireland has a mild weather, even cold But not so cold as what's going on in the world"

And: "I am a drone pilot, bloodless killing from a very safe distance Even without really flying, where it looks like a video game If I go down, I'll ask for a new toy"

There's always some leeway that needs to be given when a band from one country writes songs in another (hell, if you asked me to write a song in Portuguese imagine the rotten nonsense that would follow after I just shove it into Google translate and hope for the best). But unfortunately what's happened here is an album that should be thought provoking and stir emotion just becomes frustratingly simplistic to me. And I think it's because the concept itself is absolutely spot on, its all the more frustrating that it hasn't been done justice for me.

I can't give it 1 star with the sheer effort that's gone into it but I can't give it much more. And I've never been so disappointed in myself for rating an album poorly.

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