![]() ![]() This CD is an EP, lasting hardly ten minutes, but those are probably one of the most brutal and emotional ten minutes of whole hardcore and emo genre. Not-so-good production just gives it additional weight and feel of violence.Before the term got applied to every Weezer-lite band with guitars and a singer in nerd glasses, emo was an offshoot of hardcore punk (see Rites of Spring, early Fugazi, etc.). The short-lived Saetia, whose demo tape, single, LP, and one compilation track are collected on this 23-track, 73-minute disc, never forgot their history, and A Retrospective is emo at its purest. The band mixes hardcore aggression with stop-on-a-dime shifts in dynamics and time signatures, easily shifting from passages of post-rock complexity to pure bash-it-out aggression and back. person 1 / close my eyes / pull my heart strings / pour my tears from your hands / connections are never easy, you said / empty words / empty soul / I. She died long before that day I know this tortured, grieving heart of mother no longer knew her own being. Think Joan of Arc with considerably more rock muscle behind it. Saetia, Ariadnes Thread, The Burden Of Reflecting, Notres Langues Nous Trompes, The Poet You Never Were, Venus and Bacchus, One Dying Wish, From the Firmament, Endymion, Postlapsaria, Corporeal. this song on the other hand amazes me to no end. (Drummer Greg Drudy is particularly impressive.) Over this, singer Billy Werner alternately howls and moans lyrics that mostly stay on the right side of the most common emo pitfall - overblown words that sound like the sort of thing pretentious high school kids who read too much Kerouac would think was cool - but occasionally slip over. She died long before that day I know this tortured, Grieving heart of mother no longer knew her own being And as. i think the slow down leading to the climactic build up during closed hands, and open arms.hold nothing. Saetia (pronounced say-shuh) was a New York City-based screamo band. Aside from that, however, A Retrospective is a powerful slab of emo, and both an excellent starting point for newcomers to the genre, and an essential document for fans. Their name originates from a misspelling of the Miles Davis track 'Saeta', from his album Sketches of Spain, which, in turn, was named after the saeta, a religious tradition of flamenco music. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |