MP3: Scraps of Tape - Death as it should be
My recurring complaint about post-rock: it's almost never heavy enough. You'd think that wouldn't be a problem for a genre whose entire raison d'etre is based upon epic build-ups, but it's the sad ugly truth. I've heard way too many pieces that fall just short of awesomeness and it drives me crazy. Just when you think they'll kick it up that extra notch, they wimp out. So anticlimatic! Thankfully Scraps of Tape, young upstarts that they are, are not afraid of wielding such power. This is the opening track from "This is a copy is this a copy" (due out tomorrow and available in the webstore) and there's no mistaking that they mean business from the get-go. There's plenty of introspective parts with beautiful melodies elsewhere on the record, but I'm all about the loud bludgeoning parts today. The end, when they take it up to an even higher notch that you didn't think was possible, totally gives me a Beevis & Butthead "Yes!" moment every time I hear it. I may not be a teenage metalhead anymore, but I can't disregard my past.
Scraps of Tape - Death as it should be