2007, Temporary Residence
Don’t let the album cover fool you, with its picture of a diesel truck on a lonely, lost Hank Williams highway: this is not the stuff of urban sprawl.
Envy, those Japanese hardcore maniacs, used to sound like a train wreck, with an insane Japanese guy screaming his guts overtop of the most intense screamo ever fashioned. Their new album, the deceitfully titled Insomniac Doze, while at times dreamy, is probably one of the most majestic hardcore albums ever heard.
It is fitting that this album comes out of a nation totally surrounded by the ocean, and it is stylistic kin to Isis’ masterpiece Oceanic. The dense, universal flow, return of tide and time, anything archetypal you can say about the ocean, is represented here concretely in the music. Sure, the lyrics are Japanese, but worrying about what they say is like trying to decipher the very language of the sea.
When listening to Insomniac Doze, the riptide sweeps you away to parts unknown, pulls you under, and batters you with Earth’s accumulated force. Let the music move you.
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This is one good review!
If you’d score this from 0 to 10… what would you give it?
I know I’d definatly would give it a shiny 10.
It’s beutiful!