Evans Blue
The Melody and the Energetic Nature of Volume

THE REVIEW

I discovered Evans Blue through the single 'COLD' within a compilation, and upon first listen, they sounded like many other American bands that alternate metal undertones with very melodic ones.

Since the Internet is an inexhaustible source of possibilities, I obtained their entire album: "The Melody and the Energetic Nature of Volume." My expectations were quite low, and I didn't expect much, but instead, the album turned out to be fresh and energetic, melodic yet alternative at the same time.
The voice is very beautiful, warm and sometimes high-pitched and at the right moments hoarse and edgy to convey the various sensations of the album. The melodies are varied, diversified, and the tempo changes are very well structured. In America, they are likened in sound to groups like 'Taproot', 'Breaking Benjamin', 'Submersed' etc., but I didn't find many similarities... the genre is always very difficult to label when the influences are so many and so varied...

I want to give credit to the track 'Possession', a cover of Sarah McLachlan, the result is truly impressive considering the total upheaval of the original track and the nonetheless excellent outcome of the reinterpretation. My favorite track on the entire album is 'Over', which is quite Easy overall, but somehow... it stuck with me, and for weeks I couldn't get rid of it. Online, I found that they also have a nice website where you can listen to 30 seconds of each track on the album... the photos are very polished, and even though they are retouched, they don't save their ugliness... eh.. eh, which has actually made them more endearing to me. Alongside the official website online, we also find their space on MySpace (something now used by all bands) which doesn't offer much.

Ultimately, it's an album I would recommend everyone to listen to for two reasons:
A) given the current very hot period, rich with important music releases, alternating some easier albums with others less so (TOOL?) could be useful for the ears; (speaking of TOOL... like now 90% of American bands, if you listen closely to the Evans Blue album, you'll find some Tool-like tones... but I'm still hopeful that American rock will eventually break free from this cliché).
B) having in the car an album with such a well-done "metal" cover of Sarah McLachlan could impress more than a few girls... a word to the wise is enough... (and here I ask the women to forgive my male ego).

Happy listening!