The beginning of the 11-minute long \u201cFind Your Place\u201d gives a good look into the soul of Fourteen Twentysix’s music on the debut release by this Dutch outfit. It\u2019s an intro that goes five minutes into the song before the vocals kick in, and it features a thick, monolithic wall of synthesized sound of almost melodic white noise, into which notes of the piano and the acoustic guitar come and go like ripples in water, creating minuscule cadences in this large body of sound. There is an atmosphere in this intro, which is surreal and beautiful. And as it then morphs into the actual song: drums, vocals, and guitar noises slowly emerge, adding layers to this 11-minute odyssey.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Fourteen Twentysix is about creating a sonically captivating landscape first and foremost, and then molding a song into it. This recipe works well for the band, since they create songs that are dark and brooding and rely on aural musical layering more than anything else. Sometimes, this larger canvas of a song is a heavy electronic beat structure that goes into repetition for the entire duration, into which the song is woven. These songs \u2013 \u201cThese Wrists,\u201d \u201cWaves To Forget,\u201d and \u201cYou Sleep Under The Trees\u201d \u2013 have a dark techno-meets-melodic rock appeal, with the added guitars always giving a tuneful gloss to the music.<\/p>\n
Even with its brooding moodiness, Songs To Forget<\/i> is not an album of gloom. Vocalist and frontman Chris van der Linden and his group create refined wistfulness, making sure melody is a key part of every track. Plus, van der Linden has a gentle yearning voice that wouldn\u2019t make gloom sound any sexy. Fourteen Twentysix has an amazing ability to intertwreathe layers of synths and guitars to create dreamy, otherworldly effects. This has resulted in an album of beautiful textures and awesome music. <\/p>\n
On a sidenote, this album is available for free\/name your price download on the band\u2019s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":31207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8983],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-42899","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-fourteen-twentysix","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42899","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=42899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=42899"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=42899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}