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"Since his beginning, Intronaut's polymorphous and impetuous music attracts as much as he intrigues. "Fluid Existential Inversions" won't be an exception..."
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With his polymorphous and impetuous music, Intronaut attracts as much as he intrigues. With "The Direction Of Last Things", the Americans gained some recognition in the world of progressive metal. Breaking away from their drummer and founding member Danny Walker and changing labels may partly explain the long gestation period of five years since "The Direction Of Last Things". So it's full of questions that we approach this much awaited sixth album.
A few seconds of suspense on 'Procurement of the Victuals' before the first notes of 'Cubensis' reassure on the structuring contribution of the new drummer Alex Rudinger (Whitechapel) and confirm the persistence of the Americans to combine his cycles of power and finesse. During these five years, Intronaut has not forgotten himself and continues to work on material of great harmonic complexity with his virtuoso rhythmic entanglements ('Pangloss', 'Tripolar', 'Cubensis') and his bewitching two-guitar interweaving ('Contrapasso', 'Check Your Misfortune', 'Pangloss'). Better than that, the Americans have progressed in their self-knowledge, mastering their work in its completeness, from the assemblages in the constructions and the breaks that reach a superior degree of fluidity to the sound rendering, a true prowess of the pair Josh Newell and Kurt Ballou (High On Fire, Isis), of an impressive limpidity for a music of such density.
"Fluid Existential Inversions" is the result of a creative impulse that gives the sensation of great spontaneity. Intronaut activates his reptilian brain more than his neocortex, the power is raw and the riffs never held back while the bridges frankly lower the temperature. The result is also a real homogeneity based on an alternating sludge sequence scheme ('Contrapasso', 'Check Your Misfortune'), metalcore ('The Cull') or progressive metal (the epic and undulatory 'Speaking of Orbs') and instrumental roads in the form of hypnotic psychedelic trips (the whammy of 'Tripolar', 'Pangloss', 'Check Your Misfortune') or post-rock ('The Cull', 'Cubensis'). To balance the result, Intronaut draws less jazz sinuosities, which appear particularly in 'Cubensis', 'Tripolar' and 'Pangloss', and calms down his experimental tendencies when the spaces become free. The metalcore vocals ('Check Your Misfortune' and 'The Cull') give more expression to nuance and the choruses ('Contrapasso', 'Cubensis') and ambient arrangements such as mellotron ('Contrapasso', 'Tripolar') wrap the whole with an original colour.
These five years of rest have allowed Intronaut's musicians to clear their heads and find a freshness in the composition. "Fluid Existential Inversions" is undeniably the expression of Intronaut's deep genome, with some mutations undergone in the meantime giving a more lively melodic expression and a taste for embellishment that contrasts with the radicalism of youth. Like all Intronaut's albums, "Fluid Existential Inversions" requires effort and concentration. More than any other album the reward is worth the investment. - Official website
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TRACK LISTING:
01. Procurement Of The Victuals
02. Cubensis
03. The Cull
04. Contrapasso
05. Speaking Of Orbs
06. Tripolar
07. Check Your Misfortune
08. Pangloss
09. Sour Everythings
LINEUP:
Alex Rudinger: Batterie
David Timnick: Chant / Guitares
Joe Lester: Basse
Sacha Dunable: Chant / Guitares
Ben Sharp: Guitares / Invité / 3,9
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