Search - Envy :: All the Footprints You've Ever Left

Original, intense, emotionally powerful

Strobe Lights And Blown Speakers | Louisville | 09/16/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"It's almost like mixing Botch _We Are The Romans_ (one of the great hardcore albums) and post-rock (although this album leans more toward the hardcore end of the spectrum). I would almost compare it to Isis _Oceanic_ (awesome hardcore with distinct post-rock dynamics), but that album flows over you, completely enveloping the listener; this album pummels you into submission with its intense musicianship and singing, while giving you the occassional respite with gorgeous post-rock-like buildups. This album is impossibly intense and emotional - it's inherently obvious that Envy's lives revolve around making this amazing music.



The music can vary from minimalist post-rock-like guitar parts, to intense emotional rock, to full-on, LOUD Japanese hardcore - and often within the course of one track. "Left Hand" begins with a strange Botch-like crazy guitar part, and then morphs into one of the most absolutely intense (there's that word again - please notice the pattern) music I've come across. It's a full-on aural assault of guitar riffage, fast-paced drumming, and emotional screaming. I can't even describe it, but my heart begins hurting (in a "this is one of the most beautiful moments of my life" sort of way - like you just watched your child being born or something).



I think that if you gave Explosions In The Sky a less subtle (i.e. crazy hardcore) drummer and some badass Japanese man who screams as if his heart was being ripped from his chest, they might sound like Envy."