REVIEWS:
"Emo Diaries 7: Me Against The World warrants itself to be one of the
best comps Deep Elm has put together. Offering up some must-listens, This
Beautiful Mess's funky / jazzy bend on emo and standout Drive Til Morning's
solo acoustic alt-country trip make this chapter a much more than worthwhile
listen. In particular though, One Starving Day's completely amazing, ten minute
beautifully destructive dirge might actually be the best here. This is intensity;
this is emo; and quite frankly, this is the most devastating thing Deep Elm
has put on an Emo Diaries comp yet. The rest of the material presented here
is cream of the crop as well. There's not a bad track to be heard, and it's
the more diverse take on sounds here that makes Chapter 7 easily one of the
best." - Delusions Of Adequacy
day. i'm coming home to you. mommy and daddy. i'm a big boy now. i'm coming
home on my motorbike Animus of emptiness that we rot. locust arose from our
throats. i feel you bleeding in my dreams. narrow is desire. my arms. withered
as womb. the law of life. the law of love. the law in your eyes. the will
to power
One Starving Day
Two weeks from tomorrow's "Motorbike" is
a nmice gritty, dirty little number with a nice full guitar mix and some intensley
hollered vocals, though in all honesty, it's the next track that really makes
this entire compilation disc worth having. Italy's One Starving Day closes
out this chapter of the Emo Diaries with the near 10-minute epic, "Animus"
The track opens with about minute-and-a-half of really beautiful guitar work
that sounds like an opening movement to something by Goodspeed You Black Emperor!
or The Sword Project. Out of nowhere, though, a violent and psychotically
furious drumming kicks in, driving the track into near-grindcore territory.
The Screams are mind-blowingly intense, and the pulse rate in seconds. The
track heads back and forth between theese pieces again before settling into
another downright gorgeous guitars-and-violin piece at around the four-minute
mark. Sounds of wind blowing augment the backing track, and everything is
calm and soothing again. About a minute later, a very hesitant rhythm section
fades in, and the track bends off like a despondent cousin of CYBE!'s "Moya,"
winding off into some off-tempo drumming, a pin-wheeling bassline and slowly
pracing violin piece. Of course, this doesn't last, and when the guitars show
back up, they reappear with a vengeance, shredding the living hell out of
the track by kicking in the furious drumming and bringing the guttural screams
and growls back out with them. The bass stands ut more this time, driving
the unbridlled seriusness and intensity home to close the track. This intensity;
this is emo, and quit framkly, this iis the most devastating thing deep elm's
put down on an Emo Diaries comp yet. This may actually be the best thing ever
heard on this comp sereies, period.
While most of the material here tends to lean towards the more typical definitions
of "emo", Chapter 7 still warrants itself to be one of the best
comps Deep Elm has put togheter. This Beautiful Mess's funky/jazzy bend on
emo, Drive Til Morning's solo acoustic alt-country trip, and One Starving
Day's completely amazing 10-minute beautifully destructive dirge a much more
than worthwhile listen by themselves. However, the rest of the material presented
here is pretty cream of the crop as well, and once again, there's really not
a bad track to be heard here. Still it's the more diverse take on sounds here
that makes Chapter 7 easily the best Emo Diaries compsince the still-great
Chapter 2 and 3. As usual, fans of "emo" will probably really dig
this, while indie scenesters who are too cool for classifications will probably
wan to pass. For anyone new to these compilations, will probably want to pass.
For anyone new to these compilations, though, you coould certainly find much
worse palces to start than here.
Gary
ONE STARVING DAY
