Having come across the last AAFC release quite late,
I have been waiting for the next one with bated breath to
see if it could match up.
Well ,"All went silent, everything went quiet" does not let you down.
Instrumental post-rock drive the song structures but
when the distorted guitars kick in, the mood changes
with the powerful riffs that deliver a punch that would
not sound out of place on a sludge album.
The ambient passages carry a real feeling of mood that
build up into a post-metal explosion of tension and
release. The guitar playing is not just mindless fret-
wanking but carry the songs along with sustained riffs
and some wonderful note progressions. This is classy
stuff and the tracks have a definite epic feel to them.
There are tiny flourishes that make this stand out from the
crowd - there are some ghostly screamed vocals which are used
sparingly but with great effect and thekeyboards that could of been
overworked - instead, it sits behind the riffs and give the songs
another dimension.
This is the good shit.
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