When the Revolution Comes, Everything Will Be Beautiful was e-mailed to me a few months back. I had no precursor to this band, simply an e-mail stating that they had been following the blog, and that they had some tunes they felt could belong amongst the amalgamation of my listening desires that I choose to share with others. This included a small description that it is a progressive album dealing with a group of oppressed, a violent struggle to over-throw the oppressors and finally the oppressed becoming the oppressors beginning the cycle all over again.
Now. They may as well have just warned me they were going to musically try and flirt with me beforehand. I'm obsessed with almost anything dystopian in nature so we were off to a good start before I even gave it a listen
So. Here I am months later. Finally thinking "Maybe I should throw something else up on the blog." I remembered this e-mail I received months before promising a Dystopian journey from some men hailing from the edge of the Rustbelt in the States. An area of old factory towns and worn out abandoned ghost towns--That's how I picture the area, I have no idea if I'm right. I've never been south of the border out East. I almost do not want to ruin that image for myself, neither. Especially when I'm given an album with dystopian topics I can't help but imagine these guys as a part of this world of workers and strife in a land accustomed to rich living and comforts. Obviously I am romanticizing it quite a bit but it was an excellent precursor to go into this album with and I can say these sons of toil have not disappointed. Regardless of the actuality of who they are, the music produced the right effect that I wanted.
The music is an empowered driven form of noise-rock. More focused than a lot of the noise rock I would listen to. It is progressive, as if not just the lyrics have a story to tell, but the music too. It is not distorted to the point of just being a wall of sound--but also not clean and angular with a cheery or poppy sound. It sits somewhere inbetween a guttural yet rhythmic machine cutting the feet out from the norm. The boring, the usual just won't cut it for these juggernauts they just snowball right through the record growing until they're too big to be stopped. They are creating a group of people who had the power to overthrow a government and entered a cycle of right and wrong and did it all with music. Got no choice but to tip my hat to them and this album.
Their other albums are available for listen and purchase on Bandcamp and I highly recommend giving them a listen as well.
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I'm going to start linking bandcamp rather than Myspace. I am much more in support of it AND it most often offers options to purchase releases from the bands. If the band has a bandcamp I am gladly going to put up the link and recommend the purchase of their albums. Remember many of these can be purchased as digital downloads for extremely cheap, often even donation. So if you enjoyed it and got it for free from me please at least consider donating the cash to the bands to help continue funding this lovely community of music that we have going. The less money they have the more likely they are to sell their instruments for food. Then where are we at?
A-hem. Also United Sons of Toil's record looks like a beaute itself. I just ordered myself a copy and I can't afford food (Sadly an honest fact)--So you should do the same! Think of it this way my Canadian pals. We get a deal right now. Our dollar is stronger.
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**Last note, promise: I am going to update on Tuesday evenings from now on. And I would dig if anyone else has a music collection they are ripping / have digitally that they'd like to share wants to start posting similar stuff too. Even different stuff. Variety is cool. It'd be nice to have someone else posting to keep this more active than my lazy ass is able to on my lonesome.**
