SAYı 2

Jumping right in, big quirk on our opener "Harf Devrimi". It does have a sort of Eastern feel to it, as one might expect, but features samples and an interesting trance-like feel. "Erciyes Sokta" features a sort of scat at the start that might remind you of Korn's Jonathan Davis. This is very straight-ahead, of a similar feeling as the opener. Pretty boring, to be honest, though at times featuring some somewhat interesting rhythmic ideas. Thus far, I'm hard-pressed to consider this Prog Metal, too [It's just not]. "Foklar" has more apparent Turkic folk elements [No, this doesn't mean "Folklore" haha; it means "Seals"]. Low clean vocals seem to call another relatively Nu Metal act to mind: System of a Down. But this is far less boisterous and... thus far... far less interesting. It's a "no" from me, guys. "Baba" has a sort of farty synth intro. This rhythm, once it gets going, is basically the same as "Foklar". Really strange. But not in a good way. Little hint of a guitar solo, but... nope. You don't get that here haha.

Back in the club on "Papa 2005". I thought that was German for a second ("...Papa ist Deutsch"?)? I'm really not sure what the appeal is to this here. Merp. And then finally we are back to something intriguing on "Harf Devrimi 2005". Interesting, angular riffs over wild, tinny percussion. Something in this sort of reminds me of Ruins, actually. I guess I'm not too keen on the vocals, to be more frank about that here. Given how actually interesting this track is to what's come before, as for Spotify, it's shocking to me how much less this has been streamed... than literally everything else on the album(!!!). "Yok Var" has a feeling in its choice riffs not dissimilar to some material from their Turkish contemporaries Çilekeş (a band with Alt Metal influence that I feel would very well fit here on ProgArchives). Their first album from a year before this is called Y.O.K. ("none" in Turkish), which is why they really came to mind. But anyways, they are pulling out more rhythmic stops on this one, to a positive effect.

We return to overtly Eastern melodies on "Ebo", and I say praise be, really. The song, much like the rest, is compositionally rather static, but I like the feeling of it a lot. More farty synth (like to a MAX'd extent) is the second version of "Papa 2005". Does absolutely nothing for me... And finally we have "Baglama" with a hypnotic, folksy intro. This slowly, slowly crescendos with light additions of percussion and another string instrument (it can't just be guitar). Not a whole lot here, but I don't mind it.

Overall, just not very progressive, interesting or... anything. There were a few tracks that stuck out, though nothing "Excellent": "Harf Devrimi", "Harf Devrimi 2005" (I didn't even pick up that they were variations of the same track, if that's accurate), "Yok Var", and "Ebo".