Deep Black Sees
Listen = Silent

THE REVIEW

These five guys come from Sicily, and they bring with them a musical technique that very few young people today can showcase. It might be their live experiences abroad, or the work with Fabio Rizzo (an excellent producer from 800A Records), but this “Listen = Silent” truly leaves you speechless. We are talking about a work definitely meant for expert ears, accustomed to complex music and especially not intimidated by works like this one that need to be well assimilated. Yes, because basing an entire work on palindromic compositional structures is certainly not the first thing you come up with in a jam session when drunk. It requires calmness, passion, technical preparation, imagination. And this is what fascinates in these four tracks: a mix of surgical precision and freedom of expression, without fear of switching from heavy guitars to acoustic moments, from electronic sampling to an explosion of sax that closes this work. Also noteworthy is how palindromes are used in the track titles and the EP itself: Deep Black Sees certainly don't lack originality, that's for sure. If one must criticize, this goes to the EP's artwork, the only thing that spills over into the banal and the already seen. Perhaps they should have had the courage to experiment visually as well. And yes, it has little to do with the musical aspect, but as we enter 2015, the visual aspect of a work is almost as important as the work itself. Apart from this, there is really nothing to reproach in a work definitely made for a select few “chosen ones,” capable of embracing those nuances that make this work a truly surprising listen. Of course, it's not all perfect, there are some stylistic lapses, some moments where one might even get a bit bored. But this has little impact on the overall listen. A band that will have a lot to say in the future.