Sometimes, it takes me a while to click with an album. There are
\ntimes in this job where I listen to something and develop certain
\nfeelings about it, but I feel that I’m missing something. This was
\nthe case with
\nMigraine<\/i>, the latest release from Sacrifice Isaac, which
\nI’ve had on the shelves of the Pierce Memorial Archives now for
\nabout four months.<\/p>\n
About four weeks ago, I was all set to review this disc, but I
\ncouldn’t help but feeling that I was missing something important,
\ndespite several listens. So, I did the only logical thing: I walked
\naway from the disc – and damn near forgot about it until
\nrecently.<\/p>\n
So what did the time away from it reveal about this album?
\nSimple: Sacrifice Isaac is a band whom you’re going to have to put
\nsome extra attention into. While
\nMigraine<\/i> is a very good record that merges the best of
\ngroups like Tool and Stabbing Westward, if you’re not listening
\nclosely to the disc, you’ll miss some solid efforts.<\/p>\n
The band – vocalist W.C. Mitchell, drummer Mark Coffin,
\nguitarist\/vocalist Paul Mitchell and bassist Gene Abramov – take
\nthe musical complexity and intensity of Tool and combine it with a
\ntouch of pop sensibility (the kind I’ve heard in groups like Local
\nH and Stabbing Westward). What comes out is a unique, exciting
\nsound that is original and fresh.<\/p>\n
From the opening notes of “1000 Years Worth”, you know this is
\ngoing to be a fun listen. Tracks like “Figure It Out,” “Re-Count”
\nand “Nobody But Me” all flash between pure musical intensity and –
\ndare I say it? – a gentler side. (Don’t worry, diehard alternative
\nrockers, I’m not talking ballad city here.) Mitchell knows when to
\nlet loose on the pipes and when to make the vocals more subdued;
\nnot many in this genre know how to do that.<\/p>\n
So why do I say that this disc needs extra concentration?
\nSimple: Some tracks like “Dollface,” “One Good Stick” and
\n“Bludgeoned” tend to blur together, making it hard to tell just
\nwhich track you may have liked or disliked. Even after about ten
\nlistens to this disc, I still had to keep an eye on the track
\nlisting and the CD player’s display just to make sure I knew which
\ntrack to match up the nuances with. (It’s not that these tracks are
\nbad by any means; but they are similar in style and tone, making it
\nhard to sometimes tell them apart.)<\/p>\n
If I had to level one criticism, it would be my usual pet peeve:
\nhidden tracks. This time around, Sacrifice Isaac wastes about six
\nminutes after “Hillbilly” (probably the only track on the disc I
\ndidn’t enjoy) in order to put on the uncredited song – which also
\nisn’t among the best on the disc. (Okay, I’m beggin’ here: If
\nyou’re going to put bonus tracks on, fine… just don’t fill up the
\ndisc with all this friggin’ dead air! I’m a busy man…)<\/p>\n
\nMigraine<\/i> is an album that takes the best features of its
\nmusical genre and wraps them all into one disc. Sacrifice Isaac
\nmight not be major names in the world of alternative rock, but if
\nenough people get turned on to this disc, that all could change
\nsoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7291],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-38754","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-sacrifice-isaac","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/38754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/38754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=38754"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=38754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}