A massive new release from The Sun is on Fire! Delivers an expansive and heavy rock tonality while keeping things outside the box and in doing so they deliver so much color and intensity that the whole thing becomes incredibly infectious.
The fingertips+electricity release would be considered more of an album than anything else, but it consists of six tracks including an intro and an extensive outro.
These songs tend to span well over 6 minutes most of the time and each one of them displays such a unique side to the band's character and performance that by the time you get to the third song, you begin to start expecting the unexpected.
This is a rock record and the guitar work across the board is outstanding, experimental, vast, and alive with personality.
You get some heavier sections and some lighter ones, you get cinematic backbone at times, jazz influence at times, and just so much more rolled into one record.
You can hear the jam and classic rock influence flowing through the veins of this release from beginning to end and you can tell that everyone involved had an absolute blast creating it.
The energy and whole aesthetic of this track screams of a live performance and the players involved are just right there in the moment feeding off of each other the entire time letting the record come through alive and breathing.
This is one of the most imperative parts of this record. It has such a unique level of intensity and these waves of sonic drive that come and go.
Each track has a strange way of almost connecting with the next so it feels just like a concept record would, but you also have such massive musical journeys within each individual track as well.
One of my favorite tracks on the record is the last one simply called "Outro" and this track spans almost 10 minutes in length but takes you through all these different textures and vibes throughout its course.
The whole thing has as much color as it does edginess and is released with fewer boundaries than you might be used to which I find completely refreshing as everyone involved really affects the next.
Each instrument pushes the next one to a different place and that's what I mean by feeding off of each other's energies.
You get the sense that this was all recorded in a live setting so that the aesthetic comes through boisterous and full-bodied.
The drumming is outstanding as are the bass lines and throughout it all you have so many layers of guitars that, at times, just have notes floating through the ether of certain tracks and others are on the upfront driving them.
I certainly love the vocal approach as well because it's a little bit outside the box and also speaks to the experimental and psychedelic side of the band's approach, so you have a singer that actually adds to the unique and forward-moving flow that the band already has musically.
This was insanely fun and it's the kind of record that you need to listen to from beginning to end to really experience the way it was meant to be.
It is lengthy and has some wild rides involved but that's part of the fun of it all.
Musicians will absolutely adore this record, but avid music listeners will soak it in and take it the way they want to as it will read differently for each listener.
I love a good record that shows a lot of great sides of rock, gets a little mathy, gets a little technical, gets a little deep and vast, but still has loads of color and fun.
This record has a wonderful way of sort of swimming around in the air that surrounds you and creates and atmosphere that you fall right into.
This is different, avant-garde, and showcases the band's ability to create something freeing and incredibly memorable.
Take a deep dive into this release and see how it affects you.
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