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Rating: Earthtone 9 manage to condense in their latest work (latest, given their disbandment and excluding the EP "Omega") the best you can expect from a band that throughout their career has fine-tuned their sound, managing the excessive ferocity of their early work by converting it into a sort of ordered chaos with all the necessary ingredients for a magnificently successful operation: explosive riffs, driving rhythms, slithering and corrosive vocals, reflective pauses that make the walls tremble with their majesty. I'm not exaggerating at all, "Arc'Tan'Gent" is all this, and even more. Just listen to it, make it your own, listen to it again, and decide whether to listen to it two or three more times consecutively. That’s the effect it has.
The opening track "Tat Twam Asi" is the best demonstration of what I'm saying. Guitar and drums converse perfectly, and the vocal lines are perfect for the progression of the piece. The entire work slowly slips by with the impression that time stretches between the splendid "Approx. Purified" and the enchanting "Walking Day". "Star Damage For Beginners" bursts in to remind us that, be that as it may, Earthtone 9 hit hard and they hit with surgical precision. The last three tracks magnificently close an album that has put an end to the career of a band that decided to finish their activity with a simply perfect record. And with a spine-tingling song, "Binary 101".
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Tat Twam Asi (05:32)
tat twam asi
lost in a wilderness
i will build a fire
i become a fire
to swim in the waters
burrowing and bellowing
into a consciousness
kicking against
yet we're needing to want this
sucking and bleeding
now knee deep in substance
pulling and dragging
fail to allow ourselves
as we move to consciousness
as we move through consciousness
as we move to consciousness
driven by need for transecendence
tat twam asi
focus on the focusless
focusless is the focus
look into the self
one name branded deep
burning and singing
the markings of the soul
turning more turning
we assimilate ourselves
needing the push
a sea of flailing limbs
push to create
an equalibrium
as we move to consciousness
as we move through consciousness
as we move to consciousness
driven by need for transecendence
09 Alpha Hi (04:05)
eyes down for a circle for a while eyes down i lie i lie i lie i lie not that these dreams will betray me dig in for the long-haul wear a smile dig in i lie i lie i lie i lie see the shit rise to the surface i lie i lie i lie i lie not that these dreams will betray me
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