title fight - "shed"

rly admirable engineering work here, everything is presented very naturally, the drums especially. i love a considerately-mixed kick drum. plain & simple stereo panning of the guitars creates instant presence, vitality, urgency, emotion. dynamic range (a lot of it!!!♡♡♡♡) gives us a sensation of wide-open sky, brisk air. the cymbals are all sustain & no bite: pleasantly long transients with harmonics that act as a kind of top layer of electricity/energy for the guitar tones. the vox sound like zoning out staring at someone else's family photograph on your friend's fridge and there's a layer of window-prism sunlight and ur accidentally empathy-absorbing too much inferred emotion & imagined life-story from the image. this is a very "elemental"-sounding record, it manages to be quite gentle & introspective while still retaining all the power we'd be faced with if we were standing a few feet from the band at a hometown matinee.

the songwriting is concise & considered. the bass lines complement the gtr riffs so well it's crazy...there is a serious case of what i call Heroic Symmetry going on here: when those root notes land underneath the panned gtr harmonies it's like pushing up off concrete ground and just flying into the sky. recall that quote from melt-banana's ichiro agata where he talks about his riffs being inspired by landing satisfying combos in video games.