Candiria - What Doesn't Kill You...
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Artist: CandiriaEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-07-13
Music Label: Type a Records
Soundtracks:
- Dead Bury The Dead
- The Nameless King
- Blood
- Remove Yourself
- 1000 Points Of Light
- Down
- 9MM Solution
- I Am
- Vacant
- The Rutherford Experiment
Free Music Notes for What Doesn't Kill You...
Free Music Review: Actually 4.5 stars, but I'll lean to 5
Hit: 4 Stars
Most of the reviews here berate Candirias use of more ear-friendly musical forumulas on What Doesn't Kill You..., but I'll come out praising them from both a listener and musicians standpoint from the get-go.
First, Carley Comas voice is smoother on this release. While he does retain his signature screech on some songs, he seems to have quieted down his vocal cords a little bit making the lyrics a bit more decipherable (And they're good lyrics too) and just overall his performance is more attractive this time around, and he's defintely improved on the singing part.
Second, as for the "nu metal emo mtv garbage" that populates this album, all I have to say is that anyone who thinks even the simplest songs on this album are anything but phenomenally put together simply doesn't know how to play an instrument, and is one of your typical Yahoo Chat armchair rockstars. Candiria has taken odd time signatures, jazz inspired and complex guitar lines, and put them out in a format that is easy to digest. Sonically, this is indeed Candirias most accessible album by far, but technically it ranks among their most astounding, I'd say the chops it takes to play this album rank no lower than any of their others.
So if your definition of "mtv crap" is anything that doesn't constantly grate on the ears (for better or worse) just skip this album. You're too deep in your own musical snobbery to appreciate good music when you hear it, and would rather use it as a way to bitch along with your fellow faceless sad little metalheads who could never cut it in their own band, and have resorted to insulting others who don't follow your preconcieved notions.
Now that that's over, let's continue.
This album flip-flops, quite literally, from older-styled Candiria to this newer styled one. The opening track, Dead Bury The Dead, is one of their coolest songs and has some great drumwork, and sounds a lot like the band on 300% Density, but the rough edges that always graced their albums seem to be smoothed. The next track (where pretentious music snobs generally stop the CD) shows a more cohesive Candiria than ever before with Nameless King. It's still good, damn good.
Short and simple: This is not 300% Density part II. If you've been a fan of the band for a long time then you'd recognize this as simply the next step for them, their blending of so many musical styles and playing patterns is finally reaching a homogenous mixture, as opposed to a scattered, mishmash of the past. Everything Candiria has ever done here is still present, but the way it's put together shows maturity, and the way it's all incorporated with pop elements is fantastic.
Still a deep album, not quite as good as 300% Density (Their best album, by the way), but it's damned good and better than most of these one-stars you're seeing. When you pop this album in and hear it a few times, you'll realize Candiria has and still will define their own sound. It's rare we get bands with this much talent, ability, and far-reaching influences, and it's a shame so many people dismiss them simply because of the fact it's not as heavy as they want it to be.
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