Though not necessarily ready for FM radio, X’ed Out at the very least introduces a far-reaching musical concept to a better known and understood conversation most people are having, adorning their approach with identifying tweaks and percussive intensity.
It's taken them a while to get here, but the band are at the top of their game in so many respects.
There isn't a soft spot on the album. X'ed Out is more fleshed-out, listenable, and revelatory than one could ever expect.
For a band that made their breakthrough promoting the spontaneous nature of math rock, it's surprising to see them make their comeback with an album that often compromises that once essential characterstic.
Even if it’s a fourth album delivered with the enthusiasm and conviction of a debut, Tera Melos sound too damn geeked about where they are now to let X’ed Out be a definitive document.
10 years later X'd out serves as a rebirth for Tera Melos. Like a newborn opening his eyes to a foreign land or the uncomfortable woozy wonderment the night after a crazy party. Something is different, a real growth, a real discovery, even in those quite moments between the crushing math blows, there can be found small mathy sprouts with magical potential.
An interesting combination of math rock and shoegaze/noise rock, which results in a more accessible and interesting math rock, but however also creates sounds much less interesting or even boring, the album has its highs like in Weird Circles, bite or Sunburn, The rest isn't particularly bad but just can't keep me tuned
Tera Melos is one of the best math rock bands of all time, they're not really well known, but if you want to get into math rock, this might be the album your looking for. This album had very high high's but very low low's. The more alive moments are way better than the silent and calm moments.