Eleventh He Reaches London - 2008 Girt By Piss/Hill of Grace 7"

Band : Eleventh He Reaches London

Album : Girt By Piss/Hill of Grace 7"

Release Year : 2008

Genre : Post-Hardcore / Post-Rock / Artcore / Experimental

Tracklist :

A  Girt By Piss

B Hill of Grace

There are a lot of bands that lay claim to making music that is truly doesn’t fit within the genre. But if there’s one band that really do live up to that claim, it’s Perth (Western Australia)-based outfit Eleventh He Reaches London. And now here's their 7" single that out in 2008, enjoy.

 

 

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Eleventh He Reaches London - 2003 Diving For Treacher (Special Edition)

Band : Eleventh He Reaches London

Album : Diving For Treacher (Special Edition)

Release Year : 2003

Genre : Post-Hardcore / Post-Rock / Artcore / Experimental

Tracklist:

 1.We Were Never

2.The Impeccable Blackout Thief

3.Tactics Of Underwater Sea Battle

4.You Left Me At The Crossroads Like Val Kilmer In Willow

 

New digital only release of Eleventh He Reaches London 2003 EP 'Diving For Treacher'. Includes additional bonus track 'You Left Me At The Crossroads Like Val Kilmer In Willow' - Which was released on a compilation back in 2001, under the band name 'Our Lasting Loss'. It's the first song Eleventh He Reaches London ever recorded. In this EP their sound is little bit different from the next 2 albums, more screamo here and reminds me alot to Circle Takes the Square. So, just listen to it now. This EP is awesome.

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Eleventh He Reaches London - 2005 The Good Fight for Harmony

Band : Eleventh He Reaches London

Album : The Good Fight for Harmony

Release Year : 2005

Genre : Post-Hardcore / Post-Rock /Artcore / Experimental

Tracklist:

1. Coronation
2. Say You See Why So
3. Swarming
4. What Would Don Juan Say?
5. Ruination
6. Chilson
7. Long Grows The List Of Live And Dead Pretenders

Eleventh He Reaches London has always been a quintessential post-rock/post-hardcore band. The feel of raw emotion mixed with strong, powerful lyrics makes for a listening experience. The follow-up to their 2003 EP, Diving for Treacher, The Good Fight for Harmony is as solid an effort a band can produce. One ability this band has is the mastery of switching between a melodic depressing soft section to a heavy screaming-filled segment, and back again. The Good Fight for Harmony is a heartfelt album sure to entrap your mind throughout the length of your time spent enjoying it.
The first song on the album, “Coronation”, is an instrumental track that mixes sadness and repetition of a common melody to fully immerse you in the album from the get-go. It has a feel to it that holds true through the rest of the album and carries beautifully into the next offering, “Say You See Why So”. The guitar work on this track is probably some of the best on the album. Ian Lenton’s vocals portray the miserable feel of mistrust that the song speaks about perfectly.
“Swarming” and “What Would Don Juan Say” are two of the heaviest tracks this band has ever released. The guitar chugging in Swarming puts out an aura of anger that this band encapsulates oh-so-well. This is as close to a modern-day epic as can be. The mellow, yet still heavy, guitar riff behind the sorrow-filled lyrics in WWDJS develops into one of the angriest “breakdowns” in the last 45 seconds that yet again flows wonderfully into the eerie filler track “Ruination”.
The album slows down after that with the track “Chilson”. This soft, easy-going track still has the depressing feel as the rest of the album, but just does it without having to be heavy. The track starts picking up the angry emotion towards the end that leads into the last song “Long Grows The List Of The Live And Dead Pretenders”.
Over all, the album is a near-masterpiece. The pure despair this album oozes out in every song is enough to make any true post-rock listener fall in love, but add to the fact the band itself has the talent to play their instruments and be able to keep the passion flowing through-out shows that Eleventh He Reaches London is a band, no…a FORCE…to be reckone d with.

 

 

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Eleventh He Reaches London - 2009 Hollow Be My Name

Band : Eleventh He Reaches London

Album : Hollow Be My Name

Release Year : 2009

Genre : Post-Hardcore / Post-Rock /Artcore / Experimental

Tracklist:

1. Hollow Be My Name
2. Britain and Structure
3. I Am The Bearer, I Stand In Need
4. Son, You're Almost An Orphan
5. Oh, Brother
6. Gaze To The North
7. Toorali
8. Hill Of Grace
9. Girt By Piss
10. Death is My Holiday
11. For the Commonwealth and the Queen

Taking on the concept of colonial Australia, Hollow Be My Name gives the band vessel to express their loathing for systemized Australia and figures of authority in general. The seething vocals of Ian Lenton in the brilliant title track and first single, "I'm allowed to curse him, If he's the one that built me, I'm allowed to use his ***ing name in vein" are some of the most hateful lines put to CD this side of the equator, producing an album highlight. ‘I Am the Bearer, I stand In Need’ is another astounding track, traversing a large amount of genres in its nine minutes. Beginning with the now familiar rasping of Lenton’s vocals and a laidback guitar line, however this is just the calm before the storm. All three heavily distorted guitars come in for the second half of the track, backed by the thunderous rhythm section (Luke Pollard – bass and Mark Donaldson – Drums), further emphasising Lenton’s screams. The result is a work of art that manages to channel Modest Mouse, Neurosis and Johnny Cash, while at the same time remain entirely unique.

Over the course of an hour, Hollow Be My Name cements itself as one of the best albums to have come out of Australia in recent times, being both lyrically and musically brilliant throughout. Given more exposure, this will go down as one of the most original and daring alternative records in Australian music, it is beyond epic.

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