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Things in Night
Upon playing this album, I was struck by the full sound and righteous anger of Stranges Things in Night. This Raleigh band reaches into the deepest corners your mind and leaves you facing your darkest thoughts. Its a tribute to the haunting themes of self exploration, frustration, and disintegration. The sound is thickly layered to provide a complicated and delicate experience. Guitars and drums are mingled with electronic eccentricities, creating a sound something like Joy Division meets the sardonic humor of a Svankmajer film. Surreal images run through your mind while you listen to the howl of lead singer David Mueller. The richness of his voice is entirely captivating against the backdrop of carefully layers trumpets and guitars. Muellers milky smooth voice pulls the listener through images of darkness and disaster, with no option but to follow like a sick kitten. This Raleigh band shows a love of its craft. The album boasts a meticulous amount of attention to the careful combinations of sound. Ecclectic? Yes. Angry? Yes. But this album is a release of pent up frustrations. The album takes on the frustration of the world, head on. Opening track, Ghosts of Germany slaps you in the face, and wakes you up for the album. Muellers growling voice resonates. 1001 Erotic Nights boasts a psychedelic electronic vibe. A thick horn section rounds out the full tilt experience. Each track turns up the energy, hitting a marked change with Armistice Day. From this point, the album then carefully succumbs to itself and begins to carry the listener slowly into a peaceful stupor. Truth and Reconciliation incorporates the discord of a warped bass line that suddenly explodes into a high energy journey. For those of you with energy to release, Things in Night just may be your catalyst. Every moment of this album from the heavy vocals through the rich trumpets to the intense drumming will keep your attention. The listener is left anticipating each moment and each change. The album will not leave you bored or anxious. Hopefully this will not be a band whose talent only touches on the few who happen upon them; because if they do not make it out into the world, then the world will be missing out.
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