Friday, January 21, 2011

See You Next Tuesday - 2008 Intervals


Band : See You Next Tuesday
Album : Intervals
Release Year : 2008
Genre : Grindcore / Mathcore / Experimental

Tracklist :
 1. Nascence
2. In The End
3. The Life In Death
4. Eternity?
5. Alpha
6. She Once Said I Was A Romantic
7. Daydreams
8. Nightmares
9. In The Beginning
10. Forever On Deaf Ears
11. Goodnight (Our Last Dance)
12. This Time The Keys Are Broken
13. Dedication To A New Era
14. One Of These Days
15. Omega
16. 11/22/07
17. January And On

For a band that started off as a joke, See You Next Tuesday (or C.U.N.T. for those of you that have yet to get the acronymical joke) have done surprisingly well for themselves. Since their formation, they have been signed to Ferret Music, and also enjoyed moderate, and arguably undeserved, success with their debut release, Parasite. To the untrained ear, Parasite probably seemed like your average grind record, but those who dug a little deeper realized that it was really more of an "experimental" metalcore record that tried as hard as it could to be grind. All the tempo changes, blast-beats, death growls, short song lengths, and "shred" in the world still couldn't hide the band's penchant for breakdowns and other metalcore tendencies. After Parasite, the band had a few choices to make about the direction the new album should take. For many grind bands, the next "logical" step always seems to be to make everything faster, heavier, more technical, and, of course, more brutal. However, since the band draws a lot from metalcore, they could just as easily play up the "core" side of things and added even more breakdowns. In short, the band decided to try and go both directions at once, so the album really ends up being even more of an incoherent mess than their debut.
Simply put, if you like rambling, incoherent, and noisy metalcore-based grind with sub-par songwriting, vocals, and production, then you will probably wet yourself over this album. Even with the few (and I mean few) moderately decent points, the album still barely manages to be enjoyable.





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