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Flee the Seen - Doubt Becomes the New Addiction |
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Written by Bleed
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Friday, 17 March 2006 |
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From the first second of the blistering intro to the cd "celebrate the static" with blazing guitar riffs to Kim's roaring scream. I was unsure what to expect. All I could say was wow! I was ready to celebrate anything they told me too. The first song "Wardrobe of Ficition" takes a small turn into a medolic tone musically and vocally. Later to comes back to a gut wrenching feeling that the intro had with Kim screaming her heart out. At the beginning "Do You Think Dallas..." you start wondering if the whole cd is going to sound the same as so many others. Until the other singer Rl comes out of nowhere to share the vocal duties with Kim and the transition only continues after this. Next, Rl takes control of the mic. While Manuel takes the show with his unique guitar playing on "I'll be back on Sunday" as Kim sings back up to make a stereotypical single to have everyone's emotions swooning. Things tend to keep slowing down as Kim takes back the mic on "November 5th" with a quirky chorus: "you better come back with something better than that". "Wire Tap Out" screams hit with killer progression and change of style as Kim seems to take on the classic "post-hardcore" trend with complaining through spoken word like "at the drive-in" though it seem to work for her unlike so many others. The rest of the cd follows suit with constant change and twists and turns of fimiliar sound without ever losing your interest. There are parts that remind me over and over of so many other bands but now of days its very hard to be original. I think Flee the seen try very hard to break away from everything else going on in music today while still being sucked in. Just like their music poetic and unjust with emotion drenched madness. Beauty through agony is key in this current scene. Something Flee the Seen does with justice.  (0)
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