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Evermore - News
Evermore: Truth of the World (Welcome to the Show)
| 26-06-2009 08:37 | 0 reaction(s) | add reaction | add news |
 The notion of the 'concept album' is something that hasn't really had much gravitas in the new millennium. Short of bloated double-discs from Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Foo Fighters acoustic/electric divide, you just don't get many mainstream artists trying to make an expansive and daring record anymore. Jon Hume, lead singer, producer and head honcho of this New Zealand prog-pop wunderkind, has clearly had enough of giving kids a couple of iTunes downloads and sending them on their way.
Truth Of The World succeeds on two fronts; not only does it carry a theme over an entire suite of songs, but it also links them together musically, resulting in a bona fide rock opera that is as epic as it is ambitious. It's not strange to hear the band harping on about propaganda, media domination and the like; they've always had an ominous sense of the outsiders about them. But overt political commentary is something new, and sometimes perplexing.
In the spirit of Pink Floyd and other LPs from the 1960s and 1970s, this album has no silence between tracks. This means that you technically have to listen to the thing as a whole, harking back to the days of 'headphone sex' where you get lost in the awesomeness of the craft. It helps, then, that Evermore have scored string sections, brought in huge Phil Collins-esque drum sounds and generally upped the ante to come across like one of those psychedelic outfits with money to burn in the studio.
Yes, the song titles are bloated and yes, sometimes the lyrics are stupidly in-your-face. But it's hard to fault ambition on this scale; especially seeing as nobody else in Australia has the balls to do it. This will more than likely alienate all the little brats waiting to hear another Light Surrounding You, especially when they start hearing random news broadcasters in the middle of songs. But it's all in good spirits and it's creatively dazzling, two things we haven't seen lately in a music industry flooded by Taylor Swifts and Metro Station. |
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