It has been nearly four years since The Quiet Room graced these
\npages with their disc
\nIntrospect<\/i>. In that time, a lot has changed, both within the
\nband and in the genre of heavy metal. Where this Denver-based
\nsextet once earned comparisons to Queensryche, they now would be
\nlumped into the heading of “prog-rock” that our parents, raised on
\na diet of ELP, Yes and Gentle Giant, would not recognize.<\/p>\n
Part of the style change for The Quiet Room is due to the fact
\nthat half of the band who recorded
\nIntrospect<\/i> are gone. New vocalist Pete Jewell helps lead The
\nQuiet Room into a more progressive vein on their latest disc,
\nReconceive<\/i>, and the change isn’t necessarily for the better.
\nWhere they were once innovators, they now are just part of the sled
\ndog team. (You know the old saying: If you’re not the lead dog, the
\nscenery never changes.)<\/p>\n
What’s interesting about this album is that it almost begs the
\nlistener to read the lyrics while the disc is playing. On its own,
\nthe 11 songs on
\nReconceive<\/i> have moments of greatness but eventually fall a
\nbit flat, their messages lost in the ozone. But one read of the
\nlyric sheet, and you’ll learn there’s some substance to the music.
\nWith subjects such as racism (“Your Hate”), improper control
\n(“Controlling Nation” – though it’s left to the listener to decide
\nwhether the band is talking about a country’s leader), answering
\nfor one’s life decisions (“Face Your Judgment”) and the destructive
\npower of anger (“Less Than Zero”), The Quiet Room dare to make the
\nlistener think. This, in and of itself, is not a bad thing at
\nall.<\/p>\n
What the band needs, though, is a more powerful musical vehicle
\nto back it up. This is where the differences between
\nIntrospect<\/i> and
\nReconceive<\/i> are the most clear. Jewell is a decent enough
\nsinger, but he doesn’t seem like he’s the perfect match for the
\nmore cerebral style of songs the band is writing. Maybe that’s the
\ndisappointment I have with
\nReconceive<\/i>; there is so much promise this band has to offer,
\nand they just weren’t able to live up to those expectations this
\ntime around.<\/p>\n
Special mention should be given to the instrumental track “Room
\n15,” giving an almost Dream Theater-like feel to the band. Their
\nmoving towards prog-rock isn’t necessarily the problem, and this
\nparticular track shows they can handle the genre well.<\/p>\n
\nReconceive<\/i> is an album that seems to promise much from The
\nQuiet Room, and they don’t quite make it to the finish line. I said
\nfour years ago that this band had a good future ahead of them, and
\nI still believe that. But they do need to find the right chemistry
\nif they want to keep slugging it out in the prog-metal genre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[5843],"rating":[5614],"class_list":["post-39457","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-quiet-room","rating-rating-c-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39457","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=39457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=39457"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=39457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}