Kylesa – Time Will Fuse Its Worth
Prosthetic Records – 6561910040-2 – October 31st, 2006
By Jason Jordan
Time Will Fuse Its Worth is Kylesa’s follow-up to To Walk a Middle Course, which also found its home on Prosthetic, and is their third full-length installment overall. Coincidentally, not only do the quintet occasionally sound like Mastodon, but are also from the same humid state – Georgia.
Not unlike their Georgian cohorts, Kylesa’s latest presents a number of quirks that make for an intriguing piece of work. While TWFIW is what one could reasonably call a sludgy take on bouncy, rollercoaster songwriting – with plenty of peaks and valleys – the fact that the band uses two drummers is perhaps what’s most unique about them as a whole. The duo isn’t necessarily detectable during the regular songs – especially if you aren’t paying close attention – but is unmistakable when the drum-led ‘Intermission’ and ‘Outro’ occupy center stage. Laura Pleasants’s vocals in the tempo-shifting ‘What Becomes an End’ also set them apart from many of their peers. The group arguably parallel Mastodon too closely, however, on tracks such as ‘Hollow Severer,’ ‘When the Horizon Unfolds,’ and ‘Ignoring Anger’ when the riffs and song structures are just too similar, even though they are fairly energizing tunes.
Along with a couple other groups that get compared to the creators of Leviathan – Ken Mode and American Heritage, to be specific – Kylesa aren’t quite as memorable as the uber-popular trailblazers. Interestingly enough, I’m of the opinion that all the bands listed above suffer from subpar vocals, but in spite of that obvious flaw, Time Will Fuse Its Worth is a good, if second-rate, effort from a label that boasts a wide variety of styles.
Official Kylesa Website
Official Prosthetic Records Website
Prosthetic Records – 6561910040-2 – October 31st, 2006
By Jason Jordan
Time Will Fuse Its Worth is Kylesa’s follow-up to To Walk a Middle Course, which also found its home on Prosthetic, and is their third full-length installment overall. Coincidentally, not only do the quintet occasionally sound like Mastodon, but are also from the same humid state – Georgia.
Not unlike their Georgian cohorts, Kylesa’s latest presents a number of quirks that make for an intriguing piece of work. While TWFIW is what one could reasonably call a sludgy take on bouncy, rollercoaster songwriting – with plenty of peaks and valleys – the fact that the band uses two drummers is perhaps what’s most unique about them as a whole. The duo isn’t necessarily detectable during the regular songs – especially if you aren’t paying close attention – but is unmistakable when the drum-led ‘Intermission’ and ‘Outro’ occupy center stage. Laura Pleasants’s vocals in the tempo-shifting ‘What Becomes an End’ also set them apart from many of their peers. The group arguably parallel Mastodon too closely, however, on tracks such as ‘Hollow Severer,’ ‘When the Horizon Unfolds,’ and ‘Ignoring Anger’ when the riffs and song structures are just too similar, even though they are fairly energizing tunes.
Along with a couple other groups that get compared to the creators of Leviathan – Ken Mode and American Heritage, to be specific – Kylesa aren’t quite as memorable as the uber-popular trailblazers. Interestingly enough, I’m of the opinion that all the bands listed above suffer from subpar vocals, but in spite of that obvious flaw, Time Will Fuse Its Worth is a good, if second-rate, effort from a label that boasts a wide variety of styles.
Official Kylesa Website
Official Prosthetic Records Website
