New Contortionist album released today

[Revson]

Anyone check this album out yet? After more or less hating "Intrinsic," I wasn't very interested in this new album. I gave it a listen on Spotify and then immediately went and bought it. I haven't stopped listening to it since.

It's basically like listening to a hybrid of Cynic and Pink Floyd and was done by Jamie King at The Basement Studios.

 

[anotherpaul]

I've been listening to it on repeat non stop yesterday. Amazing vocal work and general atmosphere.

 

[crillemannen]

I haven't listened to much on the album but the first song they released really catched my eyes (ears). It is so refreshing to hear those acoustic (awesome sounding) drums. I think many djenty bands would benefit from going that route. Gonna listen some more for sure!

 

[chrisjmp]

Nothing grabbed my attention the first listen, but I'm really loving it after a couple more spins. I'm glad they got rid of some of the cheesy deathcorish bits on their other albums.

 

[Josh Burgess]

Album of the year for me. Love the music. Extremely well written. Beautiful atmosphere. The only thing I wasn't thrilled with was the mix. It's nice and balanced, but not very aggressive. (Jamie King always goes for those really smooth, warm, dry sounding guitars.)

 

[JeffTD]

What did I miss? These dudes used to be a djent band and this is 100% different. Wouldn't have guessed it was the same band.

 

[Revson]

The only thing I wasn't thrilled with was the mix. It's nice and balanced, but not very aggressive. (Jamie King always goes for those really smooth, warm, dry sounding guitars.)

Really? I think the mix fits the music perfectly. I really want to know how he gets his drum tones. This and BTBAM's Parallax II have some of my favorite tones, overall.

What did I miss? These dudes used to be a djent band and this is 100% different. Wouldn't have guessed it was the same band.

Eh, it's only like half of the same band. They stole a dude or two from Last Chance to Reason and added a synth player.

 

[LiberaScientia]

It's my AOTY for sure, I can't think of anything left to be released that will top it to be honest. Listened to it at least 4/5 times every day since it was released and I'm still not tired of it. It's so fucking beautiful, but incredibly natural sounding too, I've never heard anything like it.

 

[varobinson]

Didn't care for it all. Creative. Talented surely. Unique. Not my thing, subjectively speaking.

 

[He's Dead, Jim]

This album is such pretentious garbage. And that's coming from someone who thinks Sunbather is a masterpiece.

 

[crillemannen]

I've listen some more to it. I like the general vibe and the mix. As I said in my first post it's really refreshing to hear those drums. My only concern is that the vocals are a bit to ambient, I would have liked them to be more like lead-vocals then actually to much apart off the whole soundscape.

 

[Josh Burgess]

This album is such pretentious garbage. And that's coming from someone who thinks Sunbather is a masterpiece.

It's pretentious because it's not the same old generic metalcore?

This is 1000x better than Sunbather.