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Do you know a heavy record?
Well, make it even heavier than it already is and you will get something similar to Lost In The Sound Of Separation.
Lost In the Sound Of Separation is none other than the brand-new work of the Americans (Tampa, Florida, to be precise) Underoath.
The album follows two years after the highly acclaimed Define the Great Line, where the sound was noticeably heavier compared to its predecessor (year 2004).
In this new album, released on the 9th of this month, the sound becomes even heavier, slower, more rhythmic, and pounding and Spencer Chamberlain's voice becomes even more anguished and piercing than usual.
Aaron Gillespie (who, in the meantime, has dabbled in the side-project The Almost) has little voice in the chapter (I mean compared to previous works).
Under contract with Tooth & Nail, a label devoted mainly to Christian bands, the band's lyrics once again deal with religion in all its forms but this time in a more detached, more savage yet at the same time more visceral way.
This time everything is seen as hopeless, as if the human being is his own worst enemy and the 5 young Christians can only call upon God's help, who helplessly sees mud thrown on every creation of his on earth until everything remains empty and desolate ("Desolate Earth", the closing track).
Forget everything that has to do with a song, with lyrics, with a verse and a chorus.
Forget everything that has to do with the conventional and with the déjà vu; here Spencer Chamberlain screams in odd times and Aaron Gillespie appears more sporadically but always at the right and most opportune moment, as in "A Fault Line, A Fault Mine".
In "Emergency Broadcast" our guys warn us that the end is near, closer than we think.
Right after, in "The Only Survivor Was Miraculously Unharmed", they explain that the only survivor is miraculously unharmed and that descending into the abyss might even be relaxing ("Coming Down is Calming Down").
Upon reaching track number nine, we also arrive at the first single "Desperate Times Desperate Measures" in which it's explained that in times of famine (in every sense) any solution is good for survival.
After the almost perfect "Define the Great Line," Underoath offers us a practically perfect, secure, flawless, and compact album. An album that earns its rightful place on the list of the best releases of this 2008.
Note: The album will be available in three versions: the standard, a special, and a deluxe edition. The special edition includes an additional DVD featuring a 40-minute documentary on the making of the album, produced by The Audible Diversion Group, an independent film company founded by Underoath themselves in 2007. The documentary was filmed and edited by Timothy McTague, the singer and guitarist of the band, and director Ryan E. Gardner. The deluxe edition, limited to 5,000 copies, includes, in addition to everything mentioned, the album's tracks divided into two 10" vinyl discs and a 56-page booklet (compared to 20 pages for the other versions). All versions come with slightly different artwork.
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