{"id":26121,"date":"2013-11-06T14:01:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T14:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-the-fierce-and-the-dead-spooky\/"},"modified":"2018-03-17T15:29:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:29:29","slug":"album-review-the-fierce-and-the-dead-spooky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-the-fierce-and-the-dead-spooky\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: The Fierce And The Dead – Spooky Action"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/strong>The Fierce And The Dead<\/strong> have, at 40 minutes and 3 seconds, created something entirely passable. Two episodes of The Simpsons, almost half a game of football, a couple of chapters of the book I\u2019m reading, most of the albums that have come out this year \u2013 these are the things that I could have enjoyed in the time I took working out what exactly the sudden lapses in production or the intensely long repetition of a couple of alright riffs were supposed to be doing.<\/p>\n

To be clear from the off, the musicianship is great. There\u2019s no denying that The Fierce And The Dead<\/strong> know how to play. It\u2019s just it seems as though they\u2019re not really sure what they want to be playing as a unit. After a nice twinkly riff becomes a solid heavy riff and repeats until I can\u2019t help but check my watch, there\u2019s a completely jarring break before the riff returns almost immediately to play out the end of opening track \u2018Part 4\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The majestically self-indulgent \u2018Pyramid Hat\u2019<\/em> takes an age to get going before offering some genuinely interesting vibes throughout the closing stages. Next up sees \u2018I Like It, I\u2019m Into It\u2019<\/em> continue a theme of heavy, overdriven bass eventually lost beneath a sea of a guitar riff repeated ad infinitum. Occasionally too, I have to check back to earlier songs to double check that this very angular riff is not the same very angular riff that shows up every few minutes or so.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u2018Intermission 3\u2019<\/em> offers a brief respite from the monotony of \u2018Spooky Action\u2019<\/em> by providing two minutes of essentially nothing. Quiet noises offering pure filler for no reason whatsoever. It\u2019s so obviously pointless however, that it\u2019s difficult to hold it against The Fierce And The Dead<\/strong>. They must have done it on purpose. The title track that follows is actually pretty damn good. For a start it doesn\u2019t sound quite so much like everything else on the album \u2013 the slow, twinkling guitars build to a beautiful crescendo and for once I find myself fully enjoying the experience the band provide.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately though, it\u2019s the highlight by some stretch. \u2018Part 5\u2019<\/em> sounds like the theme tune for a shoddy made for TV thriller. At least until some sort of brass\/woodwind\/whoopee cushion begins to disrupt proceedings with random blurts of noise towards the end.<\/p>\n

\u2018Chief\u2019<\/em> brings matters to a drawn out close. Half twinkle \/ half heavy, cut right through the middle, this track offers absolutely everything the rest of the record does \u2013 just over a much shorter period with just as little going on. If instrumental prog rock is your bag, you might well enjoy this record because it is exactly what it says on the tin. If that doesn\u2019t sound like something you\u2019re already very into, don\u2019t bother. This one won\u2019t win you over.<\/p>\n

2\/5<\/p>\n

\u2018Spooky Action\u2019<\/em> by The Fierce And The Dead<\/strong> is out now on Bad Elephant Music<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Fierce And The Dead<\/strong> links: Website<\/a>| Facebook<\/a>| Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n

Words by Thomas Knott (@nounandthenouns<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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