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No, not like crayons and colors like that. I'm speaking of course, of the album by the band, Between the Buried and Me (Tommy Rogers: vocals, keyboards. Paul Waggoner: lead guitar. Dustie Waring: guitar. Dan Briggs: Bass. Blake Richardson: drums.)
Colors:
1. Foam Born (A) The Backtrack
2. (B) The Decade Of Statues
3. Informal Gluttony
4. Sun Of Nothing
5. Ants Of The Sky
6. Prequel To The Sequel
7. Viridian
8. White Walls
As many of you may already know, I love this album. It is my favorite of all time, and it is quite an amazing work of art. Yes, I said it. It is a work of art. The instruments and vocals all work together to create an amazing sound.
I am going to explain just a few reasons why I think this is the best album ever.
First, the songs all blend together seamlessly. There are no stops in the action. It is like one long, over an hour in length song.
Second, the album itself brings you through so many highs and lows and just brings you up and puts you back down.
It starts off slow with piano and singing in the song, Foam Born (A) The Backtrack. Then builds up through that song until it blends right into the start of (B) The Decade of Statues. From there, it stays built up through that whole song. The best part of this song is when you reach about 4:30. The guitar part is just great. Then the third track off the album, Informal Gluttony, starts off slow again. It slowly builds up with the chant of "rebuild" being yelled. The chorus just makes you want to sing along. "Feed me fear, informal. Feed me fear, gluttony." Then the song slowly fades into Sun Of Nothing, a 10 minute long song which has it's own highs and lows. The memorable line from this song is "I'm floating towards the sun, the sun of nothing."
Now you are halfway through the album.
Sun Of Nothing goes right into Ants Of The Sky, a 13 minute song, which starts off with an odd lyric. "My teeth taste funny today, they seem more jagged than normal." The song itself has a great riff that sounds like it could be almost Christmas-like in nature. That gets played towards the beginning and at the end of the song. This is one of the better tracks off the album, to me. There are many great guitar parts, and then even a weird folk/polka like part thrown in nearing the end of the song. The next track, Prequel To The Sequel, starts off with a riff that is just one of my favorites. This song also has it's own set of highs and lows. It starts off with this riff that just gives me goosebumps, progresses heavier and then reaches a low, quiet point in the middle before building back up again, with Adam of the band, Fear Before, shouting "Torn to it's last life, how hadn't it noticed?" and the chant of "Comfort" being shouted by Adam and Tommy. And finally the song ends with some cool guitar sweeps as it blends into the instrumental track, Viridian. I feel Viridian should be merged with the final track, White Walls, but that's off topic here. Viridian starts off quiet and all you really hear is Dan's work with the bass and a steady guitar harmony. However, the buildup to the start of White Walls just screams there is still much more epicness to come. Once White Walls, which is by far my favorite track off the record, begins, you just get the feeling of a great song. This is their longest on the record, spanning over 14 minutes in length. This song itself is a musical journey and I will tell you why.
It starts off on a high note after the buildup from Viridian, and you go through what seems just an average BTBAM song. But around 7 minutes in, it lulls you back down to the low point, all quiet and calm. Call it the calm before the storm. They chant "step back" while Tommy sings "Evaluate. Recognize." and it gets lower and lower, till the song almost stops. Then it builds you back up. With Tommy chanting, "We are part of, we are part of. Get out of this closed off circle. Get out of this closed off circle." until it reaches my second favorite part of the song, and the record for that matter. The lyrics, sung this time by Tommy are "This is all we have when we die, it's what's left of us when we die." Then going right into the growled, "We will be remembered for this." over and over a few times. The song continues to build up to the breakdown part with the scream of "WHITE WALL". And then there's just a few seconds left before the solo section comes in. This is my favorite part of the album by far. The solo section kinda brings you back down a little at the start with a great harmonious guitar section with Paul and Dustie just showing off how good they are as a duo. Then Paul takes the lead with a slower solo that just builds and builds until 12:10. For the next 10 seconds, I just get goosebumps every time I hear it. The fast paced sweeps that Paul does here, which on their live DVD he makes look so easy, coupled with the blast beats from Blake's drumming.. words cannot describe just how amazing this really is. That is the final high point of the album, and then Paul's solo slowly starts to bring you back down. The final part just brings you back to reality, when Tommy uses the keyboard to just lull you back to earth.
That is my take on the album. I know it is a lot to read, and I doubt anyone will even have read this far, but if you have, and you have yet to listen to this album, please do yourself a favor and do. It is a fantastic masterpiece. I also don't think I credited Blake's drumming near enough on this album. He has to be one of the best drummers I've ever heard. This is not an album to listen to as background music, this is one you truly have to spend the 64 minutes listening to it intently, to fully appreciate the brilliance of this.
I look forward to Between The Buried And Me's next album, which is due out late 2009, and I can only hope that somehow, they manage to top Colors.
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Colors
By Between the Buried and Me
Release date: 2007-09-18 |
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