Eat The Sun- Expand and Collide
by Charlie Sullivan
Local prog/math rockers Eat The Sun unleashed their first full length album, Expand And Collide, in early August. The much anticipated release lives up to its hype. Dave and Matt Sandoval deliver intriguingly jarring guitar lines throughout the album. Dan Beliveau’s bass is popping and bopping as never before and is responsible for the more danceable moments on the recordings. Max DeVincenzo sat in on drums and his chops lend fantastic polyrhythms to the depth of sound on the recordings. The ten songs themselves are uniformly excellent, fusing themselves together with academic professionalism and a gritty edge. The songs hammer their point inside your brain without floating all over the place. The hooks abound on the pieces concealed within hypnotic riffs and complex rhythm patterns. “A Bear Named Brenda” takes you into the fray with a heavy sonance, settles into a dream state, builds to a nightmarish frenzy with some great sound effects, and trails back off into dream state melding nicely into “Birthday.” The hammering is ever present on “Birthday”; lyrics are few floating into powerful instrumentals with precise, crunchy riffs banging into each other. “I Always Wear My Capris…You Know, In Case It Floods” and “Screaming Monkey Research Clinic” are well thought over and make your head go spinning with studio eccentricity. If you decide to pick up this album be prepared to have it slowly and meticulously grow on you.
Online: eatthesunband.com
Category: A-Sides
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