Showing posts with label *Crocus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label *Crocus. Show all posts

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Crocus - 2012 Our Memories Dress Me In A Dead Lust


Band : Crocus
Album : Our Memories Dress Me In A Dead Lust
Release Year : 2012
Genre : Chaotic | Hardcore | Emo Violence
 
Tracklist :
1. If Love Is Madness, Then I'm Madly In Love With You
2. This Is Pain
3. 222E
4. All Of You
5. You Don't Belong
6. Our Memories Dress Me In A Dead Lust
7. Left To Bruise
8. Not Alone
9. Revival

Crocus have been kicking around the UK and Europe for some time now. But that is in no way presented to you as a negative fact. The best things come to those whose wait, those who build and nurture music, to achieve the best possible result. Don’t believe me? Only interested in whatever hyped-sloppy-bullshit-that-hasn’t-even-played-live-yet is cool this week? Well fuck off then. Look at Throats and Rolo Tomassi – contemporaries of Crocus who built their reputation over a multitude of low-key releases over years of practice and refinement….

Crocus’ history lies in a classic screamo lineage that encompasses everyone from the intensity of p.99 to the epic melodicism of Daitro to the crazed, brutal schizo insanity of The Assistant. However, over time, this is a band that has grown ever more heavy, without ever losing their ‘turn-on-a-dime’ time-changes or melodic nature. We are talking classic rock riffage funneled through octave pedals and metallic distortion. Peaks, troughs and breaktaking undulations.

A true power-quartet, no one element of this band stands out more than another. Frantic (bordering on) virtuoso guitar and bass playing jostle with manic edge-of-sanity but ever-solid drumming, iced with a vicious, angry emotional onslaught of a vocal.With ‘Our Memories Dress Me In A Dead Lust’ Crocus have presented a concise, epic album that will leave you reeling.


 
 
 
 

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Crocus - 2008 The Worst Kind of Joy is Hope (ep)


Band : Crocus
Album : The Worst Kind of Joy is Hope (ep)
Release Year : 2008
Genre : Screamo / Emo Violence

Tracklist :
1 When Your Own Heart Asks
2 Eat, Cut, Fuck Or Run?
3 Merit Lies
4 We Must Taste The Inexhaustable
5 Eight Great Fears 

Straight off the bat, 'When Your Own Heart Asks' opens with those octave chords and the vocal style that does not vary throughout the record, almost immediately segueing into a Takaru-esque chuggy riff. From here on it's a mess of short riffs, fills and bridges, finally getting to a Honeywell-inspired passage that sees the song out.
This kind of pick-n-mix theme continues throughout the other four tracks. 'Eat, Cut, Fuck or Run?' demonstrates an enjoyable Orchid impression, ending with a melody reminiscent of earlier Envy records; 'Merit Lies' has its twinkly intro that Life At These Speeds are so good at, followed by at least 4 or 5 random generic riffs; "We Must Taste The Inexhaustable" (sic) does the Hot Cross thang, all twiddly riffs and high-end bass tremolo; and finally 'Eight Great Fears' mixes its PGMG-a-like riff with more La Quiete-isms.

All the above is perhaps being a little too pedantic though. There are some great moments on here that show boundless potential for the band to evolve and find their own sound. The final scream of 'It's all so simple!' followed by echoing feedback certainly hits the spot. 
All in all a decent enjoyable listen if you aren't looking for anything particularly groundbreaking. -colectivezine