Wednesday, April 2, 2008

"Secret & Whisper: The Great White Whale" --->Review

A rare quality in an industry swarming with regurgitation. If you ever have the opportunity to meet Secret and Whisper of Kelowna B.C. they will tell you what motivates them: not hair, jeans, girls, belts, lifestyle, or sales. But making unique music that they love, for no other reason than the music itself. So rare that a band is in the industry for a reason as innocent as the music. If you are in to the hardcore scene at all I can guarantee you will love the catchy chorus's and melodic breakdowns. Like Hardcore but don't like the screaming? There is no screaming on this album. They have managed to take a genre so indulged in screamo and trade hard hitting Ear bleeding screams for melodic and meaningful lyrics.

The boy's formally from Stutterfly excluding Charles Furney(vocals) are no strangers to pioneering a genre in a scene that regurgitates the same songs over and over again. This album has a mastered mix from being recorded in a professional studio in Kelowna B.C. This is not a cheap demo CD, but rather a fully fledged LP. The bass thumps the bottom while to the melodic lead guitar riffs float along side the beautiful lyrics.

This is one album worth getting.

1 comment:

Go-Tee said...

I agree it is very rare to find a band in the industry that is in it for the music and not the accolades that come with it. I am a person who can listen to all types of music but I can NOT stand that screamo stuff, but after reading that this band drops the whole hardcore cliche makes me very interested in hearing this band and joining their fanbase.