- Release Info -
Artist: Envy
Album: Recitation
Label: Temporary Residence
Playtime: 65:53 min
Genre: Hardcore
URL: http://www.myspace.com/officialenvy
Rip date: 2010-10-17
Street date: 2010-10-12
Size: 100.62 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 200 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
- Release Notes -
4 years in the making and this album does not disappoint.
"Formed in 1992, Envy is one of Japans most well-known bands. Through the
years, theyve defied genre labels but have found audiences in hardcore
circles as well as post-rock throngs. With their latest release, Recitation,
Envy continues to walk along the genre lines with beautiful and elusive
emotion.
This is the sixth full length recording from the band and it is a
mind-altering experience of supremacy and magnificence.
The quintet takes to the blending of soundscapes with hardcore breakdowns
like few other bands can, generating some of the most overwhelmingly gorgeous
pieces of work heavy music offers these days. The intensifying squalls of
heaven greet the throat-shredding vocals of Tetsuya Fukagawa like the sun
warming its first shards of land in the crisp morning.
Indeed, there is something otherworldly about the sound Envy produces here
and it can be hard to compute. Other bands might have preferred a riff-heavy
architecture to Envys wall of turbulence, but what makes this band stand
apart is their attention to details others would have discarded.
Take how the legendary group opens Recitation, for example. Guidance is an
Eno-esque swell of synth and backwards guitar harmonics, building to a
seemingly unavoidable climax of tension. It is broken up by a female speaking
in Japanese and we are, at least briefly, immersed in a sort of tranquillity.
Even as Envy takes off with the rest of the record and even as Fukagawa
invokes the damned with his ferocious vocals we never really lose that
sense of peace. Songs like Rain Clouds Running in a Holy Night and Pieces
of Moon I Weaved have a sort of gentle spirit amid the turmoil, while the
devastating guitar of tracks like Dreams Coming to an End wash over with
disoriented ecstasy.
Recitation is, in fact, like poetry. Through Fukagawas vocals and the bands
active, punishing barrage of music, we witness an unfolding of emotion as
tender and delicate as a rain-kissed flower.
With this recording, Envy has now pushed beyond the investigation of its
split releases with the likes of Jesu or Thursday and, as a result, proclaims
their own truth. It is a fully realized vision, one with a sort of expressive
reconciliation as its centre. But there is no shortage of challenges here, of
course, and the inevitable retribution is sweet."
- Track List -
01. Guidance ( 3:21)
02. Last Hours Of Eternity ( 7:04)
03. Rain Clouds Running In A Holy Night ( 8:32)
04. Pieces Of The Moon I Weaved ( 4:48)
05. Light And Solitude ( 7:14)
06. Dreams Coming To An End ( 4:03)
07. Incomplete ( 1:24)
08. Worn Heels And The Hands We Hold ( 5:44)
09. A Hint And The Incapacity ( 6:43)
10. A Breath Clad In Happiness ( 6:25)
11. 0 And 1 ( 7:32)
12. Your Hand ( 3:03)
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