There is an inherent danger when a band who carves out their own
\nmusical niche succeeds and makes a big name for themselves in the
\nmarket. That is: other bands will soon follow suit and jump on your
\nbandwagon.<\/p>\n
Codeseven is a band that is part Tool, part Nine Inch Nails –
\nonly they don’t excel at either side of the musical spectrum. One
\nof the few bands I know of that utilizes two vocalists (one for
\nmelodic singing, one for vocal chord-scraping screams), their
\nlatest disc
\nDivision Of Labor<\/i> is not the easiest disc to get through,
\nnor is it one I’d recommend picking up on a lark.<\/p>\n
The band – vocalists Jeff Jenkins (melodic) and David Owen
\n(screams), guitarists James Tuttle and Eric Weyer, bassist Jon
\nTuttle and drummer Matt Tuttle – plow through the six songs that
\nmake up this mini-album, but they don’t always worry about how the
\nbig picture sounds – and that, in fact, turns out to be their major
\nflaw. It’s all well and good to be gung-ho about the music, but if
\nthings don’t sound like they’re fitting together, it’s all for
\nnaught.<\/p>\n
These problems plague
\nDivision Of Labor<\/i> right from the beginning. Codeseven seems
\nto be more concerned about creating a ruckus than about a song
\nnecessarily. Having the layered vocals of Owen and Jenkins doesn’t
\nhelp matters; if anything, it makes them more complicated. Singing
\nand screaming don’t fit well together in general; layering it on
\ntop of the music on tracks like “Lights,” “It Could Happen” and
\n“How Many Miles To Babylon” reduces any hope of a song to sonic
\nsludge.<\/p>\n
Interestingly enough, the only thing that kept me interested in
\nDivision Of Labor<\/i> was at the outro of the last song,
\n“Leaches Of Karma,” a song that dissolves into a piano piece played
\nby Stewart Dance. (To prove that I’m no longer classically
\nliterate, I am unable to name the composer or the title of the
\npiece he played, but it’s beautiful.) While I enjoyed this
\nrendition, it was a bizarre ending to a disappointing disc.<\/p>\n
While the two vocalists doing two styles is a calling card for
\nCodeseven, they might want to consider dropping to one style. I
\nmean, you’re either hardcore or you’re not; make up your minds.<\/p>\n
Codeseven might be a band who are still learning to develop
\ntheir sound, but if
\nDivision Of Labor<\/i> is any sign, I’d guess that some band
\nmembers need to pick up the slack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7556],"rating":[11205],"class_list":["post-39349","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-codeseven","rating-rating-d-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39349","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=39349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=39349"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=39349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}