Band Origin: Santa Cruz, California, USA
Genre: Deathcore / Experimental
Label: Century Media
Running Time: 38 minutes
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Best Part: West Cliffs.
Favorite Tracks: Avdotya, West Cliffs, Woebegone, and Will Someone Please Turn Down the Ocean?
Grade: 3.5
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Motherland in way more than 20 words or less:
AGATG returns with their second release with Jared at the helm and continues the path carved by Portals with the sporadic synth laden rhythmic crushing and ridiculously random lyrics.
The Band:
Arsonists Get All The Girls are a six member hardcore experimental band from California who have run the gamut of mixing together the brutality of deathcore with a synth and keyboard infused avant-garde style approach since coming together in 2005. Stringing together grungy dissonant assault of brute force with funky synth beats and ridiculous lyrics and song titles has been their constant modus operandi, especially on their first two records. After the departure of original vocalist Cameron Reed and the release of their third and most recent records with Jared Monette, the band has taken on a more cleaner sound in comparison to early work for example on Hits From the Bow which pushed a frenetic, dissonant and raw brutal sound.
Arsonists Get All The Girls are a six member hardcore experimental band from California who have run the gamut of mixing together the brutality of deathcore with a synth and keyboard infused avant-garde style approach since coming together in 2005. Stringing together grungy dissonant assault of brute force with funky synth beats and ridiculous lyrics and song titles has been their constant modus operandi, especially on their first two records. After the departure of original vocalist Cameron Reed and the release of their third and most recent records with Jared Monette, the band has taken on a more cleaner sound in comparison to early work for example on Hits From the Bow which pushed a frenetic, dissonant and raw brutal sound.
Jay's Take on Motherland:
Arsonists Get All The Girls have frequently toured in this neck of the woods, and I've caught them in town on a couple of occasions while in school. That being said, this particular mix of music has never been heavily in my rotation, but early AGATG with Cameron Reed was raw, dingy, fast, erratic and fresh for the time - not to mention the live performances were always interesting. The 'new' Arsonists which was ushered in with their previous release Portals features higher production quality, and a cleaner feel, with a much higher emphasis on the more avant-garde nature of the band, with the keyboard solo's, interludes and synth driven sections of the music. Motherland continues with that change of pace and lets loose, with some interesting rhythm and electronic rushes. Jared's vocals are also a lot more pronounced, especially when he goes for those deep bile dripping guttural death growls. There are also some really nice touches on the album. The interlude tracks, add a good mix of texture to the album notably the track West Cliffs which is essentially one long clean keyboard solo that is a sort of break in style from the rest of the album. Then there's the breakdown at the end of Woebegone. And the janky guitar, synth and guitar solo on Will Someone Please Turn Down the Ocean?
I really have a hard time trying to describe albums like this because they're pretty much fucking insanity for 30 odd minutes, in every possible form, from the instrumentation down to the lyrics. So I'm just going to kind of leave it at that for today.
Sample of the Day:
Sunday Funday Double Down, with Woebegone and the keyboard interlude West Cliffs.
- J
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