Band : +/-
Album : EP
Release Year : 2008
Genre : Experimental | Mathcore | Chaotic | Post-Hardcore
Tracklist :
1. Intro
2. Animal
3. Ujti Navsegda
4. Net Bolshe Sil
5. Ot Belogo k Chernomu
The EP is pretty good. With only five tracks spanning ten minutes (which includes the ominous, minute long Intro with its sampling of some sort of political debate), this EP flies by. +\- packs a lot into the short time frame, however. The music never slows down, careening forward violently, carried by frantic drumming, spastic guitars, and guttural growls and shouts. Unfortunately, the production isn't that great (the production of the songs on their Myspace is a lot better), but the listener still gets a good feel for what +\- are about.
The EP definitely shows +\-’s tendency to experiment. It doesn’t all work, unfortunately (the clean vocals on "Ujti Navsegda," for example, fall rather flat). Usually, though, they do a good job with the varying approaches they take. "Net Bolshe Sil" has interludes of stripped down background music between the heavier parts that actually work very well on the short track. Finale "Ot Belogo k Chernomu" manages to have numerous approaches (Begin with a bang? Slow it down with some simple instrumentation and echoing vocals? Speed it up again? Get extra heavy with some stuttering guitars? Gang vocals? Check them all off.) without taking a misstep.
2. Animal
3. Ujti Navsegda
4. Net Bolshe Sil
5. Ot Belogo k Chernomu
The EP is pretty good. With only five tracks spanning ten minutes (which includes the ominous, minute long Intro with its sampling of some sort of political debate), this EP flies by. +\- packs a lot into the short time frame, however. The music never slows down, careening forward violently, carried by frantic drumming, spastic guitars, and guttural growls and shouts. Unfortunately, the production isn't that great (the production of the songs on their Myspace is a lot better), but the listener still gets a good feel for what +\- are about.
The EP definitely shows +\-’s tendency to experiment. It doesn’t all work, unfortunately (the clean vocals on "Ujti Navsegda," for example, fall rather flat). Usually, though, they do a good job with the varying approaches they take. "Net Bolshe Sil" has interludes of stripped down background music between the heavier parts that actually work very well on the short track. Finale "Ot Belogo k Chernomu" manages to have numerous approaches (Begin with a bang? Slow it down with some simple instrumentation and echoing vocals? Speed it up again? Get extra heavy with some stuttering guitars? Gang vocals? Check them all off.) without taking a misstep.
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