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![]() A PERFECT CIRCLE Eat The Elephant ![]() By Brian Davis, Contributor Wednesday, May 30, 2018 @ 9:53 AM ![]()
Although Eat The Elephant has taken nearly 14 years to fully manifest it’s not as though APC has left the fishing nets empty this entire time. The immemorially epic Stone And Echo will stand as one of the most immaculate live albums in Rock history, and it also introduced us to one of their all-time greatest songs, “By And Down” (though the version found herein is slightly evolved and retitled as “By And Down The River”). The band increasingly released additional singles as the shifting sands of the hourglass ferried us closer to the album release, being sure to include the likes of “Feathers”, “The Doomed” and “Disillusioned” in live shows to further set the hook for the album to come; therefore it is likely that the average APC fan has already heard nearly half of the album in some form, but with said songs being of such immaculate design and residual beauty woven so seamlessly between equally masterful anthems like “The Contrarian” and “Delicious”, it should be no surprise to find that A PERFECT CIRCLE has delivered another masterpiece of poetic beauty and melodic majesty.
The uniquely enthralling instrumentation & songwriting by band founder/guitarist/shipwright Billy Howerdell continues to be the tributary from which all of APC’s music forms and flows, its currents waxing through crisp, unhurried guitar tones and emphatic drum rhythms into waning lulls of meaningfully emotive piano passages amidst a shifting undercurrent of industrial emphasis. As always the greatest strength of the music is the intricacy by which each instrument informs and intertwines with the others, expertly crafted into a finely polished vessel of musical fortitude capable of bearing the tidal throes of the weighted subject matter in which it sails. Of course to guide this impressive ship through such shifting seas requires the skills and perceptiveness of a master captain, a veritable Quint, and there is no other vocalist alive that can fill a fish hooked hat and Dora The Explorer galoshes better than Skipper Maynard James Squarepants.
Never one to be over-pessimistic, Moby James Keenan’s melodic poesy also serves as a lyrical lighthouse beckoning you to safety by establishing that in traversing tempestuous seas and surviving the chaotic currents of society there lies beyond a horizon of hope where the drowning soul can take flight upon “Feathers” of change; we need only “Get The Lead Out”, stop sinking and start swimming. Plotting a fantastical melodic course to a brave new world, Captain Mayhab and Billy Howershmael proffer a failsafe way to avoid being eaten by the great white whale: Put down the harpoon, pick up the fork, take the bite and Eat The Elephant.
5.0 Out Of 5.0
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