Friday, February 17, 2012
Revisited Liturgy demo tapes uncovered, called Jerome's Dream
Posted by Wyatt Williams @wyatt_williams on Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:15 PM
I've avoided listening to Liturgy for the past few years, mostly because people seemed more concerned with the boring arguments about authenticity and intellectual posturing surrounding Liturgy than the music. (Frankly, inauthentic posturing is the basis of the most important popular music of the past fifty years, from Bob Dylan to R Kelly. Please stop arguing about it.) After reading William Bowers' sublime account of the Diplo, Sleigh Bells, and Liturgy tour in Florida, I finally got around to checking out Liturgy's full length from last year, Aesthethica.
According to Pitchfork, "Aesthethica is inventive, alive, and shrieking with more ideas than many bands explore over an entire career," which is true aside from the fact that post-hardcore bands were exploring more or less those same musical ideas about a decade ago. Liturgy's main contribution seems to be taking the sound of a band like Jerome's Dream and putting it into an intellectualized black metal context, a clever spin that's earned them quite a few listeners. The much-praised distillation of influences ranging from minimalist composers to late 80's metal is certainly there on Aesthethica, but it is a distillation that belongs to a previous generation of musicians. I'm surprised that more critics haven't pointed out that connection. In any case, the above record by Jerome's Dream was released in 2000 and sounds more or less like a demo tape for Aesthethica. You might dig it.
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Holy fuck this is what I am talking about. Jerome's Dream kind of fucking rule. I mean they would have been better if they didn't have those screachy vocals. I like that emo shit from back in the day but man I could do without the vocals. Orchid were ok maybe a little too feigh for me. I haven't heard liturgy yet, and this review was kind of fucking confusing. Are you complaining that liturgy sounds like Jeromes dream? I mean if a band sounds like Jeromes Dream they can't be that bad. Does Liturgy have a vocalist that screams like a little girl? If they don't have vocals than they could rule. I wish more of those old emo bands had drum solos though. That would fucking rule. I mean I don't mind seeing that emo crap but I wish bad ass math rock bands would start playing again though.
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