Rolo Tomassi-Where Myth Becomes Memory-CD-FLAC-2022-SDR

ARTIST: Rolo Tomassi
TITLE: Where Myth Becomes Memory
LABEL: MNRK Records
GENRE: Hardcore
SOURCE: CD
BITRATE: 949 kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 48:09
RELEASE DATE: 2022-00-00
RIP DATE: 2022-06-15
ENCODER: FLAC 1.3.1
SIZE: 345.68MB
Track List
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1.  Almost Always                    6:30
2.  Cloaked                          3:54
3.  Mutual Ruin                      5:14
4.  Labyrinthine                     3:26
5.  Closer                           5:15
6.  Drip                             5:50
7.  Prescience                       4:54
8.  Stumbling                        2:50
9.  To Resist Forgetting             4:04
10. The End Of Eternity              6:12
Release Notes:
Time waits for no band, but few have ridden its relentless tide with the
authenticity and dexterity of Rolo Tomassi.
Across 17 years, the trailblazing British quintets music has charted their
coming of age. Early on, exuberant, unhinged Nintendocore rampaged along with
the reckless energy of a combine harvester crashing an amusement arcade. Over
time, a darker intensity bled in, the now-transatlantic group metamorphosing
into purveyors of the most jagged, atmospherically-dense sounds on heavy musics
cutting edge. Where some peers have shrewdly cashed in as theyve grown older,
Rolo have continued to embrace their status as cult heroes, proud to count their
currency in miles travelled, lessons learned and music for musics sake.
Where Myth Becomes Memory feels like the ultimate acknowledgement of that. From
the moment six-and-a-half-minute opener Almost Always shimmers into existence,
it is a record that mesmerises without compromise, and which could not have come
from anyone else. Layer after layer of guitar and drums swell and subside.
Disparate visions of intimacy and grandiosity clash and combine. Eva Korman lays
out her abstract, affecting lyrics: Are you listening to your heart? / What
happens when it stops? Second track Cloaked unleashes a spring-loaded
tech-metal riff while simultaneously expanding the soundscape. Then Mutual Ruin
tears through, clinging to a repetitive, stabbing piano note into a
throat-ripping maelstrom, before spilling out across a skeletal second half of
vocals, keys and sparse percussion.
On one level, the broader record has been pitched as the accidental final
chapter in a thematic trilogy begun by 2015s Grievances and 2018s remarkable
Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It. Although Eva has always been reluctant to
unpack her writing, the progression of interlinked themes is clear to see:
trauma; reconciliation; how the ticking clock distils reminiscence to
suffocating shadow and glittering gold.
On another, it is a reckoning on Rolo Tomassis entire journey to this point.
With Evas move to the United States more than two years before recording  her
bandmates laid down the instrumental meat in Southampton, while she contributed
vocals from 3,500 miles west in Waldwick, New Jersey  flickers of fresh
disconnection are part of that. More significant, though, is their having taken
stock over lockdown, of where fantasy ends and the fraught reality of existence
as a band in 2022 begins. Rather than romanticising the past, theyve
doubled-down on writing an even more thrilling future.
On tracks like Labyrinthine and Drip, that is manifested in sheer skull-caving
heaviness, marrying the machine-tooled heft of artists like Meshuggah and Mick
Gordon to the harsh dissonance of Converge, Code Orange and Employed To Serve.
On others, like Closer and Stumbling, it is achieved through daring minimalism,
with Evas brother James Spence merging the influence of neoclassical masters
like lafur Arnalds, Hania Rani, and spartan post-rock outfits like Rachels
into an ever-more striking whole.
Blending searing technicality with sublime, almost poppy catchiness, penultimate
banger To Resist Forgetting is a 245-second showcase for the power of those
approaches dynamic contrast. After which, The End Of Eternity drops curtain
with a sense of aching serenity and bittersweet finality, fading into a synth
line that loops suggestively back into the albums beginning.
It is no accident that that song borrows its title from an infamous Isaac Asimov
novel, whose final line heralded, The final end of Eternity, and the beginning
of Infinity If this end really is just the beginning, God only knows where
Rolo Tomassi are headed next.

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