{"id":5564,"date":"2016-04-26T11:20:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T11:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-wren-host\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T21:20:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T21:20:43","slug":"album-review-wren-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-wren-host\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Wren – Host"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wren<\/b> is one heavy, atmospherically doom-laden, riff-bludgeoning, heavyweight band of dramatic monsters. Did I mention that they are heavy?<\/p>\n

This isn’t so much an album, as a four-track opus of slow-burning riffs that attack in waves of measured power, underpinned by a monstrous bass and brooding rhythms. But be warned, this is not for everybody; ‘Host’<\/i> is a challenging listen, requiring more than a little patience – if hook-filled choruses are your thing, steer well clear.<\/p>\n

‘Stray’<\/i> is the first monster out of the cage, its big-assed riff, throbbing bass and insistent melody soon garnering an air of drama. The track then twists and turns through a number of sinister sounding sections, the vocal almost incidental, as it hits varying degrees of intensity. The drama continues in similar vein on ‘No Seance’<\/i>, which, at just over five minutes is the shortest track, opening to a dark bass riff before the guitars come in under a veil of feedback. There’s more slow burn riffing and a shouted vocal, but it takes an atmospheric turn before going all heavy drama.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Just when you think it can’t get any more dramatic, ‘Ossuary’<\/i> kicks off and is even slower, a disjointed guitar line giving it a graveyard feel as it gets heavier and the riffs ever more intense. ‘Loom’<\/i> closes the record with a disconcerting battering ram of a track, they\u2019re actually trying to riff the listener into submission with a repetitive thrashing of hypnotic mind blowing intensity, the bass line enormous.<\/p>\n

Like I said, this record requires a little patience as it can get a little one-paced and occasionally the riffage can get rather laboured. Even so, this truly heavyweight album succeeds in conjuring up sensations of drama and is richly atmospheric; not for the faint hearted.<\/p>\n

3.5\/5<\/p>\n

‘Host’<\/em> by Wren<\/strong> is released on 29th April on Holy Roar Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Wren<\/strong> links: Website<\/a>|Facebook<\/a>|Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n

Words by Edward Layland (@EdwardLayland<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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