Well, I would, if I hadn't already ;-)


Ok so... Now I have had the time to listen to the Indian Ladder very intently, my first statement happened just after throwing it once into my cd player and then iTunes... So now I have a little more to say. I don't know if you wanna hear it, but I know that I wanna say it :D .

It is funny and the first time for me to watch a new-born song, an album grow. I have listened to your first rehearsal tunes here on MySpace, instrumental songs, later with a singer, then again instrumental. One who doesn't know the story of all this can nonetheless imagine how exhausting that process must have been.
Uhm, so I maybe can say that I have known those tunes from the rehearsal stadium on (I dunno, you do). At that time your music appeared to me just like some (heavy!) jamsessions. Cool! And at the second vocal-less time it was even more... hm, clear. But that should have depended on the recording quality I guess. It was really cool stuff. When then the first versions with Jeff appeared I honestly wasn't sure where all this would lead to. I was so used to those instrumental tunes, jamming metal, whatever, I just couldn't imagine vocals in it. Or how they would be like.
And that's the point. Of that whole album. A cool jamming metal band with a singer who, well... sings, rather than he shouts! Which is rare. It's full of tunes that are so close to making you join in singing... but then some very brutal chords tell you that this wouldn't be a good idea :D . If I should describe Indian Ladder to somebody, I would face some serious problems. Impossible, I've never listened to tunes like that. It's something completely new to me. And I'm happy about that. First I thought maybe the brutal chords and the vocals were a problem. But on the contrary! Those riffs are powerful. And Jeff's a powerful singer as well. Ironweed's tunes are quite unusual, I would say.
By the way, you passed the test of being played in my shitty old kitchen cassette player, mother and father and judge of all heavy sounds.
Truly unleashed fury.

:-)

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Cheers!