With 7/4 grooves and screaming distorted guitars, downy’s fourth record is a Math Rock beast to be reckoned with. These tracks pummel you directly through the skull brazen energy and bombast, but atop it all lies a brilliant ear for melody and harmonic progression. The back half reveals some more approachable cuts, but that tension from the first half still remains present. It constantly keeps you on the edge of your seat even with contrastingly beautiful moments. A highlight of the asian ... read more
The band truly, thoroughly and utterly solidify themselves as a force to be reckoned with, whose loud and proud voice has sadly not yet rung to the masses, injecting restless jazz and crunchy atmospheres into their well-honed and finely-crafted grooves, refined to seemingly its limit following a steady progression from their previous 3 albums.
As we'll see, this limit is broken far beyond anyone's possible imagination with subsequent albums, but downy is certainly at the top of their ... read more