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| Saisei's Discog Run Gauntlet: February
Well, discovery month is over, and I now have... 26 fucking artists that I'm gonna be discog running this year... that's a lot. So let's not delay! These are the bands I'll be doing this month, and the order I'm doing them in!
The theme for this month is light and breezy discogs! Because school is a bitch and I constantly find myself drowning, so I've chosen 3 bands that have short-ish discogs, or, in Slant Plant's case, discogs I'm partially familiar with already | | 1 |  | Caskets
Lost Souls
Ghost Like You: 3.5
Lost Souls: 4
The EP was a pretty good first showing from the Leeds 5-piece, although a little unrefined. I far prefer Lost Souls, as the album feels more cohesive, with the electronic elements giving it a nice flair and lushness sound-wise. I get the impression that this band is heavily vocal-focused because the riffs are nothing special. Most of the time, I found myself more focused on Matt Flood's insane vocal range than the instrumentals.
I get Dayseeker vibes from these first two releases, a sad boi post-hardcore vibe, but that's just a first impression, and I may yet be proven wrong as I listen to these again. I do hope Reflections lives up to Lost Souls, but looking at the Sput rating average, I'm not too confident | | 2 |  | Caskets
Reflections
2.75 (rounded up to a 3 for rating's sake)
Wow, this was a strange regression. The electronic elements are still pretty good, but everything else took a step back. The guitars are less interesting, Matt's vocals even more so. No more of those really engaging belts or runs on Lost Souls and Ghost Like You. It feels like the band decided that the way to go was in a poppier direction, only to make that poppier direction the corporate sanitized type of pop.
Some songs are decent, like Guiding Light, but others were just not enjoyable at all. Especially Better Way Out, I didn't expect this album to end with an overly cheesy empowerment anthem. A resounding meh. I'm sure it'll be better live, but I find myself hoping to hear more from Lost Souls, and less from this. | | 3 |  | Silent Planet
The Night God Slept
Come Wind Come Weather: 4.5
Short, and easily the most vicious-sounding album Silent Planet has ever released. Even as Garrett was finding his footing on screams, this EP still manages to come off as a band emerging fully formed, rather than stumbling to try and figure out what their sound was. Everything present in later releases is here too, from the intricate riffing and drumming, to the verbose and top-tier lyricism from Garrett. Oh, and of course, Depths.
The Night God Slept: 4.5
Silent Planet's proper full-length debut is beyond solid. I can see most people making comparisons to Oh, Sleeper, I got that too a couple times here and there, but it was fleeting, and I got the greater sense that this was their own work, a unique beast among the metalcore scene. The one downside is the production. It may not be immediately apparent, but when you listen to Slant Plant's later work, and how textured and rich the production is, TNGS sounds way flatter and one-dimensional by comparison. | | 4 |  | Silent Planet
Everything Was Sound
5
The absolute peak of their discography so far. One of the greatest metalcore albums I've heard in my entire life. Firstly, the band veers into the more progressive here. They've always had their foot in the genre, what with their usual disregard for verse-chorus-verse structure outside of a couple songs, but here, there are weird time signature skips, interludes, and even a song written as one big palindrome!
Speaking of which, Redivider and Panic Room are easily the crown jewels of Silent Planet's career. The former is a prog-core masterpiece, especially from a lyrical standpoint. I can't imagine how hard it must be to write a song that not only is palindromic lyrically, but to write a song like that that actually makes sense and is coherent. Panic Room, on the other hand, is a simpler song lyrically, but it's an odyssey in music form, from its savage intro to the slower, more melancholic mid section, all culminating in a crushing final breakdown. Absolute perfection! | | 5 |  | Silent Planet
When the End Began
4
Probably the weakest Silent Planet album? That's still a really good album in comparison to other bands, but this one definitely stuck with me the least. It has its VERY STRONG moments (New Eternity, Share the Body. Visible Unseen, etc.), but this is Slant Plant shifting into a more traditional verse-chorus-verse structure, and there were definitely some growing pains here and there. Not to mention, coming off of EWS, the mountain to climb was always going to be a tall one. | | 6 |  | Silent Planet
Iridescent
4.5
The first Silent Planet album I ever heard in full! And what a fucking intro it was. Translate the Night's breakdown is still one of my absolute favorites. Overall, this album is far more consistent than WTEB, with some of the most crushing and pulverizing cuts in Silent Planet's entire discography. The band are ANGRY here, right up to the first and only use of an F Bomb in their history. Can we say that Alive, As a Housefire is probably the angriest song they've done?
And yet, this fits perfectly alongside their more melodic cuts, like Terminal and Second Sun. It's just a remarkably consistent, on all cylinders effort from the band, and still the album I relisten to the most frequently from them (EWS might eclipse that soon enough though) | | 7 |  | Silent Planet
Superbloom
Originally a 4.5, now a 4
Yeah, this is the only album of theirs that actually grew OFF me as opposed to growing on me. It's still an absolute banger, bu I think this has the weakest first half of any Silent Planet album. Again, it's not BAD, but listening in full, especially coming right off the heels of the last couple albums, it hit me how different that first half was, with its heavier focus on electronic elements. I think Garret's clean vocals are great, but maybe a little rough here and there, and the lyricism is an interesting step in a different direction, moving beyond the political and social contexts of the previous 5 albums/EPs, and going into a more sci-fi and spiritual direction. It's still pretty damn cerebral, but tracks like Offworlder are definitely more in your face with their meaning compared to later tracks like :Signal: or Nexus. Speaking of which, once you get to :Signal:, it's full throttle towards the end. The back half is classic Silent Planet, and I love it. | | 8 |  | Palm Reader
Palm Reader | | 9 |  | Palm Reader
Bad Weather | | 10 |  | Palm Reader
Beside The Ones We Love | | 11 |  | Palm Reader
Braille | | 12 |  | Palm Reader
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AnimalForce1
02.01.24 | Just realized I forgot Caskets' EP, Ghost Like You. Oh well, I'll put that rating with Lost Souls' rating | AnimalForce1
02.05.24 | Jeez, I forgot Silent Planet's debut EP too? Okay, rinse and repeat then | AnimalForce1
02.19.24 | 9 records down... approximately 162 to go |
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