Band : Quiet Steps
Album : Quiet Steps EP
Release Year : 2007
Genre : Screamo / Post-Rock / Mathrock
Tracklist :
1. Hearing You Sleep
2. Why You're Living
3. Letter to Walsingham
4. Resilience
2. Why You're Living
3. Letter to Walsingham
4. Resilience
Quiet Steps is a 3-piece screamo/indie combination from Brisbane, Australia. Experimenting with a range of powerful guitar melodies, intricate bass progressions and drum progressions, their sound could be compared to early 90s post-rock fused screamo as well as various Ebullition and Dischord Acts.
Quiet Steps' powerful brand of screamo blends tricky, clean guitar passages with involved drumming, melodic basslines and intense screaming. At times their songwriting seems almost more influenced by indie rock than hardcore, though this is rarely the case lyrically. The band's real strength is in their ability to create powerful, emotional images with both words and music. "Letter to Walsingham", the record's highlight, mixes beautiful and desperate chord progressions with screamed vocals and lyrics such as "He said he was but a servant/A servant and a soldier/A battle lost by the queen/Was a loss of a crown". Sonically, Quiet Steps is truly a no-frills record. There are no effects or overdubs apparent and Leon's guitar never even makes use of distortion, thus you certainly won't hear any chunky power chords in any of these songs.
If there's a big complaint to be made about Quiet Steps, it's with the production. Sure, everything is easy to hear and mixed efficiently, but it makes the whole thing sound a little lifeless. Certainly nothing like the band's live show. The clean sounds prevent the album from having a raw quality, but on the other hand, it's a very stripped down package with nothing more than you'd find in the band's live set. The band's real power is in their live show, but Quiet Steps is certainly promising for future releases. Fans of Suis La Lune, Mihai Edrisch, Tiny Hawks and various Kinsella projects would do well to check this out.
If there's a big complaint to be made about Quiet Steps, it's with the production. Sure, everything is easy to hear and mixed efficiently, but it makes the whole thing sound a little lifeless. Certainly nothing like the band's live show. The clean sounds prevent the album from having a raw quality, but on the other hand, it's a very stripped down package with nothing more than you'd find in the band's live set. The band's real power is in their live show, but Quiet Steps is certainly promising for future releases. Fans of Suis La Lune, Mihai Edrisch, Tiny Hawks and various Kinsella projects would do well to check this out.
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