{"id":59089,"date":"2018-04-19T17:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=59089"},"modified":"2018-07-08T12:46:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T11:46:04","slug":"review-tesseract-sonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-tesseract-sonder\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Tesseract &#8211; Sonder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-59090\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sonder_tesseract-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sonder_tesseract-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sonder_tesseract-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sonder_tesseract-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sonder_tesseract-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sonder_tesseract-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sonder_tesseract-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sonder_tesseract-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sonder_tesseract.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Over the past eight years, <strong>Tesseract<\/strong> has become one of the most influential names within progressive metal. Throughout this time they have inspired and bolstered the djent scene explosion. Although, due to a revolving door of vocalists, this fourth outing, <em>&#8216;Sonder&#8217;<\/em>, is only the first record to consecutively feature the same line-up. Despite this, it comfortably searches through what they\u2019ve done in the past and finds ways to make it feel new and exciting, without the feeling of treading on old ground.<\/p>\n<p>Stunning opener <em>\u2018Luminary\u2019<\/em> is an exemplary track that catches the band on top form. Thick, cyclical riffs, beautiful vocal melodies and complex rhythms collide to make a striking piece, with an infectious chorus in Tompkins\u2019 yelling<em> \u201cAre you alone?\u201d<\/em> It takes a little bit of everything they\u2019ve excelled with in the past, and pushes it up a notch.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Beneath My Skin\u2019<\/em> is another song that feels like a direct evolution of older material. Building on the tense, atmospheric nature of 2013\u2019s <em>\u2018Altered State\u2019<\/em>, highlighting their knack for arrangement and deeply textured metal. The guitars sound huge, while the vocals effortlessly shift from gentle to powerful. <em>\u2018King\u2019<\/em> builds on some of the more aggressive, longer-form music of the past, compressing it into a tight, poetic track. The lyrics are at their most vivid, and charismatically delivered.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"TesseracT - King (from Sonder)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nwW1d_KtkJw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of the brightest moments comes in the shape of <em>\u2018Smile\u2019<\/em>, (significantly reworked from the single version) which takes the band to a darker place than we\u2019re used to. Anxious basslines and commanding vocals are followed up by ruthlessly disorienting riffs, and some brilliantly produced vocal flashes stretches the unease further. It\u2019s a pacing, hulking beast of a track, effortlessly proving <strong>Tesseract<\/strong> still have plenty of tricks up their sleeves.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a relatively short album (it clocks in just over half an hour), but they finally sound comfortable with their line-up, overcoming the growing pains of 2015\u2019s <em>&#8216;Polaris&#8217;<\/em> to reach a quality that lives up to the hype of what came before. It\u2019s efficient and methodical, but it pays off as they explore their gift for exciting, innovative prog rock.<\/p>\n<p>4.5\/5<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Sonder&#8217;<\/em> by <strong>Tesseract<\/strong> is released on 20th April on <strong>Kscope<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tesseract<\/strong> links: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tesseractband.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tesseractband\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tesseractband\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tesseractband\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by\u00a0<span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Sam Seaton&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:[null,0],&quot;12&quot;:0}\">Sam Seaton.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesseract continue to sound new and exciting on &#8216;Sonder&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":59090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5879,1510,15032,10795,3005],"class_list":["post-59089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-reviews","tag-kscope","tag-sam-seaton","tag-sonder","tag-tesseract"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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