The Sawtooth Grin – Jabberwocky

2024-03-19 13:41:33

from Oliver
on March 19, 2024
in EP

After 2022, a whopping twenty-one years behind the debut album Cuddlemonster record comeback that has taken place Good. dedicate themselves The Sawtooth Grin finally the finalization of Jabberwocky.

The Mathcore Grinder – Jason Springman (“Guitar. Prepared Piano. Composition. Arrangement.“), Rich Lombardi („Vocals. Lyrics. Accordion.) Jon Karel („Drums. Percussion. Piano. Arrangement.“) und DJ Scully („Fretted Bass. Fretless Bass.“) – take up material that began to emerge over a decade ago, i.e. around the actual reunion of the group from Montrose, which dissolved in 2004, but then via the demo and bootleg exit into the realm of the Sawtooth GrinMythic submerged – until the band was now ready to capture the songs in an adequate way: “It’s the re-discovery and re-classification of a missing link. One that proved too unwieldy for our younger selves to unearth.

More precisely, this means that the quartet is doing a kind of recycling with current resources. As if pulled out of a time tunnel, the eleven anachronistic minutes essentially close the gap to the ADHD turn of the millennium and blood-related colleagues like them in their technically complex virtuosity The Number Twelve Looks Like You at. But if you look at it in more detail, for example: Brown Recluse taking up the ideas of Dead Ringersas is the case with the much closer Good. designed attitude and a decidedly gen The Dillinger Escape Plan oriented guitar acrobatics represents an update with new ingredients when the hissing panic The Locust or Destroyer Destroyer is injected. The production and mix give all aspects of the frenzy a chance to deliver standout scenes, while the songwriting maintains the balance of eclectic ingredients and a catchy form that works beyond the generic crowd.

The Tableau Stags wants to literally overtake himself along his chicanes and makes Greg Puciato proud in the dramatically slowing middle section, while the tips of A Cloud, a Cauldron, a Colony flex their muscles according to all the rules of genre art before The Meadow with his patented Karel Latino drums in a sinister chanting rumba position, the range of the Sawtooth Grin-The character is emphasized and the chaos is fanned out to create space.
With which the “SawtoothaissanceSo it continues in a well-maintained manner – even a bit more impressive than it is Good. prolonged. So it’s no wonder that the limited vinyl versions of Jabberwooky sold out within minutes. The digital version is also available for free via Bandcamp.

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