 | Tera Melos Drugs to the Dear Youth
4.0
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| 4.0 excellent | 204409 EMERITUS | January 21st 07 |
Say what you will about the technicality of bands like Dillinger Escape Plan, Meshuggah, and Psyopus, but Tera Melos is there and they don't sacrifice any listenability for technicality. They have moved slightly away from their Braid/Denver in Dallas-type style and more towards oddball progressive stuff, but overall, this album feels more like a continuation of their last album than anything else, however they seem to be one guitarist fewer than last album. If anything that absence has made the rest of the band more inventive with its playing. This album is the first great release of 2007.
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| 4.5 superb | embroglio | January 19th 07 |
Tera Melos has changed a lot since their 2005 untitled debut album. The "Drugs to the Dear Youth" EP is almost showcasing a new genre of it's own, with the band losing quite a bit of the jazz qualities on their debut and replacing them with crazy synthesizers, wacky effects, and quirky drum loops. The departure of guitarist Jeff Worms greatly attributes to this, as the trio has calmed down a bit live and focused more on creating tight, ritalin-like soundscapes with so much detail it is hard to consume all at once. Although the band has matured in a live sense, they have "regressed" musically. Although the technicality and song structure is better on "Drugs", there are a lot more samples and effects than on the last record, giving it a nice quirky feel, making immaturity not so bad. The album is really only 3 tracks long, with the first three all being parts of the infamous live epic "40 Rods to the Hog's Head", another being "A Spoonful of Slurry is Good For What Ails You" (The only "full" single track on the album), and the last two tracks, "The Werewolf and Ben" and "Is Good For What Ails You" being two parts to the same song. Overall, this is a vast improvement for the group, with vast technicality from all three members rarely being too overbearing.
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| 4.0 excellent | CyanBlue | December 26th 15 |
Mathy,Weird,Hectic,Technical,Fun,Nostalgic Rock. What more could you want?
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| 3.5 great | BtwntheAKIRAndMe | September 18th 15 |
Low 8 out of 10: Tera Melos' instrumental EP is certainly one of the most interesting to come out in the genre.
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| 5.0 classic | fLewis23 | March 14th 11 |
This album demonstrates that there can be a working relationship between musical prowess and emotional expression. In accomplishing this feat, Tera Melos has constructed a template that will surely be referenced by progressive musicians in the future.
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| 4.5 superb | wisechick80 | February 2nd 07 |
The best part about Tera Melos is the technical ability of its members. Never too overbearing but a lot to listen to as well. Minus one member the band has more room to breathe and has shown vast improvement on the listenability level.
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