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Despistado:
The People of and Their Verses
Bless their confused little hearts for warming up the coldest place on earth with their heart-thumping, heat-pumping, post-punk blend of rock. Despistado opens with Burning House, and its driving guitars under Dagan Hardings howling vocals that set the urgent tempo of the album. Victim follows later with a riff-tastic track that will pick you up out of your seat with its strutting beat. If Relationships a Construct, Then Im A Construction Worker continues the party with its nimble guitar work and varied vocals, helping to break up the slightly monotonous sound that was presented in the first three tracks. The title track, sitting one number short of the middle, wraps up the slightly front-loaded portion of tunes. The layered guitars float above the energetic drums and provide a solid foundation for the hyper vocals. The second half of the album, while not without its many highlights, fails to provide the intensity and appealing nature heard more in the first half. Many of these tracks leave the listener searching for a melody to grab onto and a desire to pick up the pace. With Test Tube, the song feels like it rambles on a bit too long, even though it clocks in at only three minutes and 40 seconds. The album closer, My Definition of a Tragedy, tries to pull at many of the styles heard throughout the album and has moments that deliver some of the most intense lyrical yelling heard in the twelve tracks. With the main portion of the song ending 20 seconds short of four minutes, the music starts back up again less than a minute later to deliver a totally non-intense, instrumental ending that would be something more likely heard from a band like Maserati, except with a more interesting bass line. One might argue that this seems a little odd given the flavor of the rest of the album, but I like to think of it as the cool down to a 40-minute aerobic workout that gently encourages the heart rate to return to normal. From pulsating, dance-inducing tracks to screaming melodies and aggressive guitars, this album commands your attention and has the intensity to get even the mot depressed person up on their feet. One can only wonder what the future may hold for this promising Canadian quartet.
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