An Autumn For Crippled Children - All fell silent, everything went quiet

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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Kassad - London Orbital

Normally, high up in the top floor of Maim Towers, I put together

my reviews with wit, wisdom and the knowledge that I am right

and you are wrong. But the band have put forward their own manifesto

that says everything that needs to be said. 

Combining abrasive and gritty black metal with hallucinatory 

ambience and spiralling postrock intricacy, Kassad’s name is 

synonymous with misery, futility, and madness of modern urban life.

"London Orbital", the new album, centers around modern

 urban living and looks to a near future of megacities where

 the city itself is a personified, malevolent being where human 

empathy and culture have been replaced by artificial intelligence. 

The artist adds: "I wanted to create music for an imagined,

 future London - one where the city’s monoliths of glass and 

concrete have come alive to assert their malevolent control 

over the millions of people that live and toil amongst them. 

Workers travel in the vast shadows of these buildings, in the 

tunnels and transport systems that snake below or in the

 briefest snatches of sun that are yet to be blacked out.

 If you tilt your head and look at the city just right, you can 

already see the light starting to turn to darkness."

This is the good shit.

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