{"id":23650,"date":"2014-04-02T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-employed-to-serve-change-nothing\/"},"modified":"2018-03-17T15:34:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:34:59","slug":"album-review-employed-to-serve-change-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-employed-to-serve-change-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Employed to Serve &#8211; Change Nothing, Regret Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_inline_n3bir5FJQB1qheirv.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><strong>Employed To Serve<\/strong> are a nice change in the current scene. Where most bands opt for a more straightforward take on hardcore, whether full of fast riffs or slow beatdowns, the Woking 5-piece take the alternative approach of throwing the rule book out of the window and going for a full-frontal, aural assault. The result of doing so is <em>&lsquo;Change Nothing, Regret Everything&rsquo;<\/em>: six-tracks and 13 minutes of harsh, sporadic and unabashed anger.<\/p>\n<p>The style on the EP is very reminiscent of hardcore that used to be very popular but doesn&rsquo;t have quite the presence that it used to. Fitting somewhere between The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Chariot and Heavy Heavy Low Low, the tracks on <em>&#8216;Change Nothing&hellip;&rsquo;<\/em> revolve around shifting tempo as often as possible, and alternating dynamics between mute and deafening. In the space of a song (none more than 2:46 in length) double-time sections with stop dead in their tracks and leave the listener with a few choice chords at a time, breaking up the pace and throwing around dissonant notes \u2013 all of which is executed as a precisely orchestrated mess. Where the faster riffs and beats provide the meat of the EP, the slower sections are what accentuate the chaotic structures and manic compositions \u2013 particularly in <em>&#8216;No-one&rsquo;s Child&rsquo;<\/em>, which stops to indulge in a some Every Time I Die-style background leads behind the choppy chords \u2013 very reminiscent of ETID&rsquo;s <em>&#8216;Leatherneck&rsquo;<\/em>.<!-- more --><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Where the instruments provide the controlled chaos, the vocals bring the tracks back into a feeling of instability that keeps the music interesting. Justine Jones and Sammy Urwin provide equally harsh distorted vocals which are staccato in delivery and mostly indecipherable in content, with Jones&rsquo; high screams sounding particularly shredding \u2013 I use the term scream in the literal sense, rather than just to describe a harsh vocal style.<\/p>\n<p>While there isn&rsquo;t anything particularly new sounding in this EP, it is certainly welcome in a landscape that tends not to indulge in broken and chaotic sounds as much as it used to a few years ago. Back in the mid-2000s, bands like Heavy Heavy Low Low and The Chariot very nicely filled the niche, but in their absence it is great to hear a band like <strong>Employed To Serve<\/strong> approach hardcore so brashly. The 13 minutes needed to take this EP in are very intense, but it&rsquo;s definitely worth your time to have a go at it.<\/p>\n<p>4\/5<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Change Nothing, Regret Everything&rsquo;<\/em> by <strong>Employed To Serve<\/strong> is out now on <strong>Holy Roar Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Employed to Serve<\/strong> links: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/employedtoserve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/employedtoserve.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bandcamp<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/employedtoserve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by Ben Kosma (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenKosma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BenKosma<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employed To Serve are a nice change in the current scene. 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