Always The Quiet Ones - NEW!
We featured Always The Quiet Ones a while back, so when Garry from SAN PR dropped us a line about a couple of new tracks and a video, we jumped at the chance to get on board to see what was going on. Formed in 2010, Always The Quiet Ones drawn on the influences of the likes of The Deftones, Tool and Biffy Clyro, compressing all of these ideas into their own sound and blowing everyone away.
Drought opens with a roaring melee of hammering drums, pummelling vocals and a sense of building before launching us into a melodic combination of hard hitting guitar lines and rumbling bass lines. Despite the all out heavy approach, there’s a real sense of melody flowing through everything throughout this track, keeping the track accessible and alive as it continues to flow around you. Building up to an almighty chorus, this is a track which is surely crafted for the live scene, the sort of thing which is going to get people singing along and getting involved with the band – you can’t help but take it on board as the sound engulfs you. Throughout the track, there’s a real sense of songwriting expertise, the song not necessarily following the conventions you would expect and instead, crafting its own path in a tool-esque style, continuing to remain interesting and intriguing until the second it comes to a close. (Check out the video below).
Ghost In The Filament continues the bands approach to pummelling away from the off, this time crafting another heavy opening before adding in their own signature elements of funky power and drive. Darker and more ominous throughout, there’s a strange contrast throughout this track, sounding dark at one moment and almost uplifting at the next, but always managing to keep an edge of the darker side of things embedded in the music. Catchy once again at moments, this is another track which shows how a band have developed their sound and worked to get to a point where they’re able to compete with the heavyweights on the scene.
It’s striking listening to these two tracks from Always The Quiet Ones as you can hear how their sound has changed, how they’ve developed and where they are headed. Throughout both there’s elements of power, elements of melody and moments which will make you simply want to be witnessing this on a live scene. I for one think this is a great sign of what’s to come, more please!
To find out more about Always The Quiet Ones, check out their Facebook page HERE.
Words: Dave Nicholls
Drought opens with a roaring melee of hammering drums, pummelling vocals and a sense of building before launching us into a melodic combination of hard hitting guitar lines and rumbling bass lines. Despite the all out heavy approach, there’s a real sense of melody flowing through everything throughout this track, keeping the track accessible and alive as it continues to flow around you. Building up to an almighty chorus, this is a track which is surely crafted for the live scene, the sort of thing which is going to get people singing along and getting involved with the band – you can’t help but take it on board as the sound engulfs you. Throughout the track, there’s a real sense of songwriting expertise, the song not necessarily following the conventions you would expect and instead, crafting its own path in a tool-esque style, continuing to remain interesting and intriguing until the second it comes to a close. (Check out the video below).
Ghost In The Filament continues the bands approach to pummelling away from the off, this time crafting another heavy opening before adding in their own signature elements of funky power and drive. Darker and more ominous throughout, there’s a strange contrast throughout this track, sounding dark at one moment and almost uplifting at the next, but always managing to keep an edge of the darker side of things embedded in the music. Catchy once again at moments, this is another track which shows how a band have developed their sound and worked to get to a point where they’re able to compete with the heavyweights on the scene.
It’s striking listening to these two tracks from Always The Quiet Ones as you can hear how their sound has changed, how they’ve developed and where they are headed. Throughout both there’s elements of power, elements of melody and moments which will make you simply want to be witnessing this on a live scene. I for one think this is a great sign of what’s to come, more please!
To find out more about Always The Quiet Ones, check out their Facebook page HERE.
Words: Dave Nicholls
Always The Quiet Ones
Garry from SAN PR is always good for sending some bands through to us to check out, and this last week was no exception. One of the ones this week is Always The Quiet Ones, a Liverpool based 5 piece offering skewed-up rock in the form of their new EP Freak Show, which is due to be released on the 5th of March 2012. According to the one sheet, the band sound like ‘an early hybrid of Biffy Clyro dishing out dirty messed-up grooves and breeding with the spawn of Tool’ – this sounds like something pretty damned awesome!
Opening with Sign Of The Times, everything is distorted and syncopated from the second it begins, all forming a mash up of ingredients that not only engages you but pulls you in and intrigues you. Moving from powerful riffs into a plucked lead line under vocals which alternate between screechy and powerful, what you get here is a track which is catchy, funky, hard hitting yet a bit strange – the comparisons to the likes of early Biffy Clyro and Tool spring back to mind and you can see where they’re coming from. This track is however a perfect live track – you can imagine the band opening with this track and straight away getting the crowds going mad. My personal favourite section of the track though has to be the mid part where everything seems to break down and turn onto a new level of distortion, the final mix really making you just sit back and question why the hell you’ve not heard of these guys before!
Valentina comes in at number 2, a track which is much more bass heavy than the previous and serves to almost chill you out after the unrelenting hits of Sign Of The Times. Soothing vocals elevate the track and show off the Tool influences from the outset, making sure the music behind everything doesn’t follow convention but instead creates its own path through the track to keep you fully engaged. The chorus though, oh my word the chorus – this is powerful music done amazingly well. As the vocals soar and the backing instruments adopt a new level of power, you find tingles going up and down your spine and before long, you’re almost in a trance like state of mind. This track is quite simply a triumph and one which, once released, I’m sure the band will be known for. There’s heavy, there’s clean, there’s syncopated, there’s straight forward – and it all works together in perfect harmony – it’s a hell of a track.
Final track on the EP, Freak Show, closes proceedings and leaves you without a shadow of a doubt in your mind that this is surely going to be one of the EP’s of the next year. Soothing guitar lines lure you in and tempt you to listen harder whilst the drums keep a relatively simple beat, the whole mix sounding haunting and foreboding yet somehow alluring. Suddenly it hits you and the track takes form, the guitars and bass once again bulking out the mix to a point which is hard to fully take on board, the vocals sooth you, the drums keep you listening and the bass makes sure everything is joined as one – once again this is a track which you really have to hear to believe. This track seems to describe the band perfectly, it’s another track which pulls in numerous influences and creates a sound which is completely unique, almost new and incredibly fresh – one which I cannot wait to hear more of.
Always The Quiet Ones are a band I think everyone should hear, their music transcends the basic conventions of genre and presents a band who can not only play as unit and craft songs which are simply mind blowing, but they understand the form of music in its basic sense and can manipulate it to suit their own needs. This EP isn’t a rock EP, nor a Prog EP, nor any genre I can come up with as a label – it’s an Always The Quiet Ones EP, and one which I highly recommend you get out there and check out just as soon as you can.
To find out more about Always The Quiet Ones, check out their Facebook page HERE.
Opening with Sign Of The Times, everything is distorted and syncopated from the second it begins, all forming a mash up of ingredients that not only engages you but pulls you in and intrigues you. Moving from powerful riffs into a plucked lead line under vocals which alternate between screechy and powerful, what you get here is a track which is catchy, funky, hard hitting yet a bit strange – the comparisons to the likes of early Biffy Clyro and Tool spring back to mind and you can see where they’re coming from. This track is however a perfect live track – you can imagine the band opening with this track and straight away getting the crowds going mad. My personal favourite section of the track though has to be the mid part where everything seems to break down and turn onto a new level of distortion, the final mix really making you just sit back and question why the hell you’ve not heard of these guys before!
Valentina comes in at number 2, a track which is much more bass heavy than the previous and serves to almost chill you out after the unrelenting hits of Sign Of The Times. Soothing vocals elevate the track and show off the Tool influences from the outset, making sure the music behind everything doesn’t follow convention but instead creates its own path through the track to keep you fully engaged. The chorus though, oh my word the chorus – this is powerful music done amazingly well. As the vocals soar and the backing instruments adopt a new level of power, you find tingles going up and down your spine and before long, you’re almost in a trance like state of mind. This track is quite simply a triumph and one which, once released, I’m sure the band will be known for. There’s heavy, there’s clean, there’s syncopated, there’s straight forward – and it all works together in perfect harmony – it’s a hell of a track.
Final track on the EP, Freak Show, closes proceedings and leaves you without a shadow of a doubt in your mind that this is surely going to be one of the EP’s of the next year. Soothing guitar lines lure you in and tempt you to listen harder whilst the drums keep a relatively simple beat, the whole mix sounding haunting and foreboding yet somehow alluring. Suddenly it hits you and the track takes form, the guitars and bass once again bulking out the mix to a point which is hard to fully take on board, the vocals sooth you, the drums keep you listening and the bass makes sure everything is joined as one – once again this is a track which you really have to hear to believe. This track seems to describe the band perfectly, it’s another track which pulls in numerous influences and creates a sound which is completely unique, almost new and incredibly fresh – one which I cannot wait to hear more of.
Always The Quiet Ones are a band I think everyone should hear, their music transcends the basic conventions of genre and presents a band who can not only play as unit and craft songs which are simply mind blowing, but they understand the form of music in its basic sense and can manipulate it to suit their own needs. This EP isn’t a rock EP, nor a Prog EP, nor any genre I can come up with as a label – it’s an Always The Quiet Ones EP, and one which I highly recommend you get out there and check out just as soon as you can.
To find out more about Always The Quiet Ones, check out their Facebook page HERE.