Metalcore at the intersection of math and noise rock with a pinch of screamo: Two years following their debut album Underperformer optimizes the Copenhagen quintet Eyes on Congratulations its deeply referential eclecticism quite a bit.
In a direct comparison, the songwriting has become more consistent and coherent, simpler and relying on more catchy songs – actually one of them alone Metz scene to be patented, like the one that repeats its riff with stoic obstinacy and escalates with an imploring gesture Congratulations! is more persistent with an instant grip than much the band has unleashed to date. Chew acts later downright straight and compactly laid out on rock with gang shouts, more straightforward than expected: as a tightly controlled chaos full of hooks, it’s breathless and unruly enough to constantly break out of the silver platter grooving.
Where the space is filled with a more effective substance, there is still clear room for improvement, but this assessment also has something to do with the associatively binding vein of amalgam that opened the recipe of the Danish band – around the in all window displays sarcastic poison-spooked, with an ADHD diagnosis, college degree and neo-LLNN-Commitment equips frontman Victor Kaas on a direct path to the Jake Bannon Award – more ideal.
Get started right away Generation L and IT’S HAPPENING or later too Bbbbbbbliss sound as the main reference as would Every Time I Die with the Greyhaven-Close the door Converge fall into the house, sometimes on the gas pedal, sometimes on the wrecking ball. The driving rock ‘n’ roll mania of dull BOY and the rumbling stack end Value (with his catchy chanted “No value!“-Hook as pit kerosene in front of a motor riff), on the other hand, distils the immanent Daughters-hysteria and will she in The City or Ballast also with a piggy punk rock to consorts like The Bronx maneuver.
Not only Tearjerker has the traits of a heavy sluggish sludge bastard who hypnotically resembles the thick and muscular muscle version of early Pianos Become the Teeth on the tough tightrope act The Hope Conspiracy balanced. And at the same time energetically driven, pleasingly complete and versatile, even if the emotional depth effect, despite all the aggressiveness, doesn’t necessarily go where it really hurts.
But Eyes don’t have to reinvent the wheel, don’t necessarily turn it better than the role models, because they are with Congratulations first turn the right screws for their own evolution. The playing time of 30 minutes, which doesn’t allow for any idle time, also falls on the right side of the scales, in order to judge the never-apparent judgment as Underperformer definitely left behind, while the band should rather be congratulated on climbing the next step in their career.
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