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The resurgence of rock as mainstream music in the \u201890s was high and mighty. Its subsequent era wasn\u2019t as glorious, as most of the bands that were part of this explosion had mostly faded away, and the remaining ones mostly evolved to assume less fiery versions of themselves from years past. This new face of rock \u2013 more folky and less antagonizing \u2013 is hardly the face of contemporary music, but it is still potent enough to inspire and spawn bands, and good ones at that. Fictionist is just the band that keeps rock alive in its purest form without succumbing to the pop fever that grips today\u2019s mainstream rock music with a tight fist. <\/p>\n
The band\u2019s debut, Lasting Echo<\/i>, is straightforward, and it means it. There are no unnecessary convolutions, no pretensions, no \u201ccheeky\u201d genre hybridization: just plain old rock music. The music, at its core, has a lot in common with the laidback post-Brit pop sound, for instance, similar to someone like Travis or The Verve. But with Fictionist, the good-old American band that it is, the guitars are more at the fore. The beautifully contemplative songs on Lasting Echo<\/i> are often scattered with guitar interruptions that almost play a duet with the vocals, giving the music of Fictionist an unmistakable likeness to classic rock.<\/p>\n
Even in its little mould, Lasting Echo<\/i> is no simplistic an album; quite the contrary. This is a record teeming with rock music influences from different eras, creating a wonderful melting-pot of moods and sounds. A cut like \u201cAlways\u201d has arena rock grandeur; at the same time, tracks such as \u201cHuman Wings,\u201d \u201cBlue-Eyed Universe,\u201d and \u201cStrangers In The Dark\u201d bask in lazy casualness. \u201cThe Well-Made Shadow\u201d and \u201cTime To Time\u201d have a \u201860s psychedelic rock thing going on, whereas \u201cDeeper And Deeper\u201d is straight up Brit pop without question. <\/p>\n
But no matter what, every song on Lasting Echo<\/i> has a strong melody, which is a huge part of what makes the album so great. There is also this other little factor: that of vocalist Stuart Maxfield. His calm and serene vocals are touching, and their range is awe-inspiring. More than once he lets out Chris Cornell-like screams that are as soulful as they are powerful.<\/p>\n
Fictionist is a band worth getting acquainted with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":30445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8624],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-42109","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-fictionist","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42109","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=42109"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=42109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}