Within certain circles, much eagerness seems to have been building for the new album from Indiana’s The Contortionist. Entitled Intrinsic, it will be released tomorrow via eOne/Good Fight Music.
To be brutally honest, I can’t say that I’ve been among the eager, because my own tastes tend to veer off in different directions. But I have at least been interested, and I suspect some of you are in the same camp. So, as a public service, I want to bring two pieces of information to your attention.
First, the entirety of Intrinsic is streaming at this location, at least for a little while.
Second, today Noisecreep exclusively premiered the band’s official video for “Causality”, the album’s third track. The song combines djent-style pneumatics, prog-style instrumentals, a dreamy/spacy keyboard layer, and a combo of hardcore roaring and ethereal crooning. It becomes . . . beautiful. The well-made video is pretty to watch, too . . . the dreams of a middle-aged man, both a kind of discovery and a kind of emotionally wrenching journey. Nice shots of the band performing, too.
Anyway, to check that out, follow this link.
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I was not at all engaged by their first album, so I can say that “Intrinsic” is an improvement, simply because they moved from ordinary djent/deathcore to borrowing heavily from Cynic. That said, it’s still only a decent album, mostly reminding me how The Human Abstract and Last Chance To Reason did most of these ideas better last year.
Some of the few deathcore bands that deserves listening..