ERROR

The Warning — somehow — managed to top Queen of the Murder Scene. The band recycles some grim concepts from their debut and packages them into a much more palatable and infinitely more vivid, unique medium. This is a record that discusses the errors of society, prophesizing the aptly-named record, and offers blatant critiques of the consensus complacency at our reality. The woman in a gown with a virtual device blinding her vision depicted on the cover is metaphorical in many respects, the bland and conforming gown stripping any personal autonomy from the woman, veiling anything that marks her character. The device across her eyes both shrouds her from her true circumstances and provides her a reality she can truly stomach and revel in. With her arms spread and body posed as if in a sensual dance, she is evidently content with her fabricated reality. This all is meant to convey the band's perspective on society as a whole, a very intellectual take on a popular critique of society, one the band handles with absolute grace. There are many distinct critiques tumbling from the band's lips and instruments with this work: critique of cult-like thinking that is consuming the political ecosystem, the bestial practice of gluttony, greed, and rapacity by the globe's elites, among the most prominent featured on the record. Even a vivid suggestion that society's formulaic make-up is flawed on the track Error, the binary code uttered by the girls in a harmonious practice meant to signify that we must break free from the constraints we have been bred to complacently bound our hands in. The band also utilizes religion to their advantage, using many religious terms and allusions to communicate their message: "Walk on water," during Revenant, the track Martirio framing the conforming civilian as a willing martyr in their own demise, and the track Disciple depicting blinded society as disciples to conspiracies that persecute themselves, among others. These are extremely effective uses of penmanship, ones that preach the written prowess of the girls. All these beautiful forms of artistry, and it has little to do with the music being produced. That is the form of brilliant musicians — and creative forces as a whole — and that is what the Villareal sisters bring to the table with consistency. The instrumentals are abrasive and impactful to accompany these marvelous thematic implications, also calm and gentle when the occasion requires it. Such variety shouldn't be so easily achievable. but the band makes it seem elementary. Dani's vocals somehow take another leap forward, cementing herself among the best vocalists not only in rock, but in music today. Everything about this record is worth adoration. The girls have never received the credit they are due. They are incredibly intuitive, knowledgeable in the shortcomings of society, and they aim to warn the audience of their flaws and errors, doing so with spectacular success

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