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Rating: Given the premises set by 'Prey on Life', with expansive sounds, excessive use of effects, and broad-ranging songs, Burst's future seemed destined for a calm post-core/post-rock drift à la 'Isis' or 'Cult Of Luna'. Prediction incorrect.
However, the feeling is that the Swedish quintet of former Nasum member Jesper Liverod has unintentionally left something important behind: the very element that made a record like 'Prey On Life' great and which 'Origo' lacks.
'Prey On Life' naturally and spontaneously blended genres, while 'Origo' sounds artificial, stubborn in chasing the previous cumbersome model, unable to break away from the well-trodden path. The psychedelic excesses are now incorporated into a sound that's compact, solid, less experimental, and somewhat repetitive.
Stormwielder and Where The Wave Broke rebel against the norms, not coincidentally the most noticeable tracks, while Mercy Liberation opens with an (inadvertent?) homage to Morricone, only to evolve without further pursuing this intriguing contamination.
The tracklist seems to be crowded with too many fillers, in contrast to the remarkable run of masterpieces that was 'Prey On Life'. The increased use of Robert Reinholdz's pleasant clean voice serves no purpose when it goes hand in hand with the worsening performance of Linus Jägerskog, monotonous if you will, less sharp than before.
We might as well think of 'Prey On Life' as the seal that closes an era for Burst; 'Origo' is nothing more than the first step in a new evolutionary process: the result lacks well-defined contours and sometimes loses sight of the goal to be pursued but gives hope for what will be the endpoint.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Where the Wave Broke (03:36)
(A promise to betray
A betrayal to remember)
Where the wave broke
And flushed us back
Back into the sea
Could have carried us farther
Mired only by ourselves
Horizon glowed in morning
Through vile was our resolve
Where the wave broke
And flushed us back
Back into the sea
Would have brought a haven
Sadness, that bitter failure
Night's embrace was colder
As the stars lit
One by one
Where the wave broke
And flushed us back
Back into the sea
A memory rejected
Rejection was the promise
Should have gazed beyond
Ashen clouds that covered
Saw us huddle
Fearing
That bloated bastard sunrise.
02 Sever (05:11)
Where have we gone?
I find it harder to connect
And I find it farther away from me
Where did you go?
Where have I gone?
I feel my wound is healing poorly
Scar tissue render me frozen
Bitter
Where is it now?
What have I lost?
Give me back my demon
Call me back my demon
I feel the void won't swallow me
Has it been torn from my heart
It takes us so long
Are we waiting for nothing?
Summon back my demon
Sing for me my demon
Foreboding this uprising
A vermin coronation once again
Sever
03 The Immateria (05:22)
A silver sky and I lie down
You don't provoke my anymore
These hours try
And I go down
And horror yields a door
The light outlives the setting sun
End a day to shun
My senses slip
A lie begun
From all to none
The black as painted by the moon
Colour filth from which we've hewn
Beckon hell it ends too soon
All wanting hope and ruin
The storm that rose the crushing gale
Awaken into dismal pale
My senses blank, the sleepers veil
Where and why the burning fail
A nightmare catalyst
Harness delusion
08 Stormwielder (05:03)
I wake to see
The bastard children thriving
The plight
Your burden
The scourge abiding
No matter what consequences
I have only knives for you
I will be your storm
The strike you never knew
You little man
No willful melancholy
No matter how you plead
This wind to right your folly
Crushing worlds in front of you
Gushing through the trial
I am the wind
I am the storm you'll always flee
Find you there
Where the sun smote
Storm cleansing all away
09 Mercy Liberation (05:22)
Hear now what I tell you
Men shall know of this
They shall sleep content
With certainty they'll see
And here's the secret
No hidden logic in the seasons
Dreamer's topic denouncing
All forms of reason
Every lie to a child
Every beating of a promise
Embody all the scourge
Something beautiful to throw away
Let the weight of the centuries bend you
And the light of clarity blind you
I tell you of humanity
It's come to rise unbound
Finally to Earth
Finally born
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By The_Edza
The alternation between Jägerskog's fierce voice and Reinholdz's clean vocals is one of the album's best points.
'Origo' is already a great album, reaching an excellent quality level with potential for even greater works ahead.
