Suicide Note - Empty Rooms
Posted on August 19, 2008 at 4:38 pm by admin
I’m always surprised at what people can do with the combo of guitar, bass, drums and vocals. That comes together with what some people tell me - that everything has already been done, s why try being creative? I can always point those people out to some band doing some so crazy that they’ve never heard before, and yet as a reviewer, with all the odd-ball bands out there, there’s still people who can get together to make some unique, bizarre creation.
While I can give you a generalized description of what Suicide Note plays, their personal variation goes pretty far off the map to the point where I can only give you a vague description. “Empty Rooms” falls into a noisy world somewhere in between indie rock and art/hardcore, with the harsher moments fitting in with the crowd that Converge would run with. As always, many bands who are influenced by Converge take inspirational lessons from the band rather than actually containing anything that sounds similar.
The vocals are a strange yelped sort that reminded me of a pix of early relaxed pace early 80’s punk, some underground synth bands before the whole thing broke it big, and a few of the early, very underground indie rock bands in the 90’s who had to work hard just to stay on key. The guitars jut out with jangly, noisy, distorted chords that run the gamut to display many textures, from shimmering post-rock with urgency, melancholic depressive melodies, to intense, angry instrument beating. While every song features it’s own voice, and moves pretty far from one another, there’s still a noisy undercurrent that flows under everything to pull every song together into a cohesive album.
So anytime someone says that everything that can be done has been done, you’ll know that there’s always an album like “Empty Rooms” to prove them wrong, while at the same time, sonically, there’s no album quite like “Empty Rooms”.
Released August 19th, 2008
Empty Rooms at MySpace
Hawthorne Street Records at MySpace
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