Happy 976 day everyone! Today I listened to Killing the
Dream’s Fractures.
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| Killing the Dream // Fractures |
I got this album at the West End Record Fair (on very nice, transparent, ice blue vinyl) at the start of the year. It was one of two albums I got
that day and one of two heavy albums in the entire fair (the other was an
orange and black splatter colourway of No One Deserves to Be Here More Than Me).
And fun fact, I didn’t know who or what this album was because it had no labels,
no spine text, and no cover text. The only reason I got it was because it had
Deathwish on the back and cause the cover was unmistakably Jacob Bannon art. Of
course a record is gonna be good when it has both those things.
So, today I listened to the vinyl and it was a cool
experience. The bass on my record player is almost non-existent but I kinda
like that. When I listen to music digitally I tend to EQ the shit out of
it, but just listening to the record, on the budget record player that my friends
all chipped in to get me for my birthday a year ago, was nice. It sounds good
because that record player was bought with love and it’s lame as shit but I can
100% hear that when I listen to anything on it.
On to the album itself though. I like it quite a bit. It’s
essentially what you get if Have Heart were playing Counterparts tracks. And
look there are probs some hardcore purists that are gonna come for me, but,
there’s a bit of first record Avenged on here at points too. Very subtly in
those guitar leads, but it is there. Fight me. I like this album. I think if I
heard it maybe two or three years ago I’d be a lot more keen on it, but as it
stands now, I think it’s good. If you want a Counterparts track to listen to,
definitely check out Consequence (What Comes Next). And if you want a Have Heart track to check out, see You're All Welcome.
My favourite songs
on here though are the last three: Thirteen Steps, Holding the Claws, and Resolution. Thirteen Steps is both the shortest track on the album (at 38
seconds), and the most melodic. It’s got this super clean sparkly guitar line
over the top of the whole thing like something off Stage Four. And it also
flows perfectly into Holding the Claws.
Now that song has that kind of distant muffled drum sound thing I like very much, right at
the start of the song and is essentially a punk drum track with hardcore vocals;
very cool. And then there’s Resolution.
Final track. Longest track (4:23). Has a big shout-along into two-step section
about halfway through. Song ramps up for the big finish kinda like the refrain in
Loma Prieta’s Satellite, and then
rings out.
But it’s cool, it’s very cool. Again, if you like
Counterparts, or Have Heart, a bit of Modern Life Is
War and some Loma Prieta, check this out.
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