The album cover for The Fierce and The Dead‘s debut is a portrait of bead-like structures, closer ones look like dirty white pearls while the last trails are like far-away neon lights, unconnected to each and sporadic at the end. This might not relate to the title, If It Carries On Like This We Are Moving To Morecambe, which is a matter on itself but after listening to the record it all makes sense.
The band is made up of Matt Stevens, Kev Feazey and Stuart Marshall who have managed to divide the work in making this post-rock debut that is not genre-specific at all. “Flint” shoots off with massive, industrial sound before it slows down to a melodic fast-tempo number that has rich, luscious bass tempered with steady drums. If It Carries serves up “Part II,” the continuation of the song in the band’s one -track EP, which like its prequel explodes in masterful dynamics of its guitar work. Slower tunes like “The Wait,” “Hotel No.6″ and “Woodchip” are perfectly well-placed in the album tracks order, a task rarely paid attention to by musicians these days, to let the listeners take a breather between heavier ones like the blistering ‘Landcrab” that has brusque, hardcore bass-guitar-drum number and “10×10″ a fast, dancey tune that explores the band’s pop sensibilities, which is the biggest surprise in the record. When playing loud enough, the sounds bounce off especially at that 3:20 highlights in it. If It Carries closer “Andy Fox” is a six-minute slow-burning tune that seals the record fittingly well with its sparse ending as if it is moving away gradually from the front.
If It Carries On Like This We Are Moving To Morecambe might not get us travelling to the England town but the record plays the pull and tug between popular music brilliance and post rock relevance, still winning us on both sides. The musical talents executed in the record is indubitable in its merit. The Fierce and The Dead might have given left-field music its post rock record of the year and does not even know it yet.
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July 20, 2011 • 7:55 pm
The Fierce And The Dead’s If It Carries On Like This We Are Moving To Morecambe (Review)
The album cover for The Fierce and The Dead‘s debut is a portrait of bead-like structures, closer ones look like dirty white pearls while the last trails are like far-away neon lights, unconnected to each and sporadic at the end. This might not relate to the title, If It Carries On Like This We Are Moving To Morecambe, which is a matter on itself but after listening to the record it all makes sense.
The band is made up of Matt Stevens, Kev Feazey and Stuart Marshall who have managed to divide the work in making this post-rock debut that is not genre-specific at all. “Flint” shoots off with massive, industrial sound before it slows down to a melodic fast-tempo number that has rich, luscious bass tempered with steady drums. If It Carries serves up “Part II,” the continuation of the song in the band’s one -track EP, which like its prequel explodes in masterful dynamics of its guitar work. Slower tunes like “The Wait,” “Hotel No.6″ and “Woodchip” are perfectly well-placed in the album tracks order, a task rarely paid attention to by musicians these days, to let the listeners take a breather between heavier ones like the blistering ‘Landcrab” that has brusque, hardcore bass-guitar-drum number and “10×10″ a fast, dancey tune that explores the band’s pop sensibilities, which is the biggest surprise in the record. When playing loud enough, the sounds bounce off especially at that 3:20 highlights in it. If It Carries closer “Andy Fox” is a six-minute slow-burning tune that seals the record fittingly well with its sparse ending as if it is moving away gradually from the front.
If It Carries On Like This We Are Moving To Morecambe might not get us travelling to the England town but the record plays the pull and tug between popular music brilliance and post rock relevance, still winning us on both sides. The musical talents executed in the record is indubitable in its merit. The Fierce and The Dead might have given left-field music its post rock record of the year and does not even know it yet.
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