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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:MP3 Download
This is an album that needs to be listened from start to finish as the order of the songs makes it such a special album, everthing about this album is brilliant.
Lyrically it is poetic (without being naff), each song is a story beautifully described. The singer tackles issues such as cancer, religion, social deprivation, crime, familly relationships and mental illness in a sensitive an intelligent way without being over sentimental.
Musically it is tight, the bass and drums drive each song and no instruments overwhelm the music, there are also some great bits of percussion and it even sounds like a bit of brass section on 'A Letter'. The vocals are clear, you can hear every last word, and the singer and yells when it is appropriate to the lyrics of the song. The production has a real live sound about it which I like, but doesn't sound raw.
There are many outstanding moments on this brilliant album, 'King Park' being my personal favourite, but also 'The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit', 'St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues', 'I See Everthing' and 'Safer in the Forest' are also amazing.
Don't expect a heavy noisy album with this offering, this is an album to listen and appreciate. I've played this album to friends who are not really mad on ardcore music and they also fully appreciate it.
To compare it to other bands it is in the same scene as Defeater and Pianos Become the Teeth, but is also inspired by Fugazi and Henry Rollins.
Just go and buy it, you won't be disappointed.
Lyrically it is poetic (without being naff), each song is a story beautifully described. The singer tackles issues such as cancer, religion, social deprivation, crime, familly relationships and mental illness in a sensitive an intelligent way without being over sentimental.
Musically it is tight, the bass and drums drive each song and no instruments overwhelm the music, there are also some great bits of percussion and it even sounds like a bit of brass section on 'A Letter'. The vocals are clear, you can hear every last word, and the singer and yells when it is appropriate to the lyrics of the song. The production has a real live sound about it which I like, but doesn't sound raw.
There are many outstanding moments on this brilliant album, 'King Park' being my personal favourite, but also 'The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit', 'St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues', 'I See Everthing' and 'Safer in the Forest' are also amazing.
Don't expect a heavy noisy album with this offering, this is an album to listen and appreciate. I've played this album to friends who are not really mad on ardcore music and they also fully appreciate it.
To compare it to other bands it is in the same scene as Defeater and Pianos Become the Teeth, but is also inspired by Fugazi and Henry Rollins.
Just go and buy it, you won't be disappointed.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I knew very little about La Dispute proir to getting "Wildlife" and bought this album on a whim after it recieved a good review in a magazine I was reading. I intended to put the album on as a bit of background noise but soon found myself captivated. This album is unique, especially the lyrics and their poetic, story-like nature.
The vocals do have a tendancy to overpower the fantastic instumentals but doesn't really affect the album greatly and to me stands as a testament to the vocalists passion and intensity.
"King Park" is the most hard-hitting and emotional song on the record, culiminating in the heart-breaking climax where the vocalist screams: "Can I still get into heaven if I kill myself?". "The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit" is another stand out song with urgent vocals complimenting the drums and guitars.
Give this album a go even if you're not typically into hardcore because this is not a typical album and has a lot to offer.
The vocals do have a tendancy to overpower the fantastic instumentals but doesn't really affect the album greatly and to me stands as a testament to the vocalists passion and intensity.
"King Park" is the most hard-hitting and emotional song on the record, culiminating in the heart-breaking climax where the vocalist screams: "Can I still get into heaven if I kill myself?". "The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit" is another stand out song with urgent vocals complimenting the drums and guitars.
Give this album a go even if you're not typically into hardcore because this is not a typical album and has a lot to offer.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Definitely a grower if you give it a chance...
1 Nov 2011
Format:Vinyl
Being somewhat new to La Dispute, my only experience with their music was their previous LP "Somewhere At the Bottom..." which was at moments brilliant, but inconsistent. Having spent the past few months enjoying their particular flavor of post-hardcore (spoken word with some screaming), I had high expectations for Wildlife. With that said, I will review the packaging and music separately because they both play an integral part:
Packaging
I bought the vinyl copy of this album, and the packaging is really nice. The copy I got was 2 LPs, one marbled green and one clear. The one major gripe that I have with the vinyl packaging is that a lyric sheet was not included. So much of this album revolves around the lyrical themes that to expect someone to listen to it while reading lyrics on their cell phone (like I did) is absurd. However, the vinyls came in great condition and sound great. I have listened to the album on MP3 and vinyl and the vinyl is definitely a step up.
Music
One of the first reviews I read of this album started with an emphatic "read along with the lyrics while you listen to this album the first time!" I ignored this advice, and on my first listen found the album good but nothing special. On my second listen, I decided to follow the reviewer's advice and what I ended up finding is a nasty, heartbreaking little album about growing up, tragedy, cancer, murder, and most shockingly, hope. In much the same way that Control by Pedro the Lion showed the seedy underbelly of human ugliness, I consistently felt the lyrics poking at sub-conscious thoughts and feelings. The album climaxes with "All Our Bruised Bodies" where the lyricist wants to hear all the sick, sad stories of the world, summed up in the lines "Tell me that you're struggling, tell me that you're scared. No, tell me that you're terrified of life. Tell me that it's difficult to not think of death sometimes." Far from a call to suicide, the lyricist seems to marvel at the resilience of humanity.
In short, this is definitely not an album to put on in the background of a party or to put on for a bit of light listening. It is a heavy experience that is worth the focus that you put into it. Give it a few spins and read along, thank me later.
Packaging
I bought the vinyl copy of this album, and the packaging is really nice. The copy I got was 2 LPs, one marbled green and one clear. The one major gripe that I have with the vinyl packaging is that a lyric sheet was not included. So much of this album revolves around the lyrical themes that to expect someone to listen to it while reading lyrics on their cell phone (like I did) is absurd. However, the vinyls came in great condition and sound great. I have listened to the album on MP3 and vinyl and the vinyl is definitely a step up.
Music
One of the first reviews I read of this album started with an emphatic "read along with the lyrics while you listen to this album the first time!" I ignored this advice, and on my first listen found the album good but nothing special. On my second listen, I decided to follow the reviewer's advice and what I ended up finding is a nasty, heartbreaking little album about growing up, tragedy, cancer, murder, and most shockingly, hope. In much the same way that Control by Pedro the Lion showed the seedy underbelly of human ugliness, I consistently felt the lyrics poking at sub-conscious thoughts and feelings. The album climaxes with "All Our Bruised Bodies" where the lyricist wants to hear all the sick, sad stories of the world, summed up in the lines "Tell me that you're struggling, tell me that you're scared. No, tell me that you're terrified of life. Tell me that it's difficult to not think of death sometimes." Far from a call to suicide, the lyricist seems to marvel at the resilience of humanity.
In short, this is definitely not an album to put on in the background of a party or to put on for a bit of light listening. It is a heavy experience that is worth the focus that you put into it. Give it a few spins and read along, thank me later.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Not for the faint of heart
25 Jan 2012
Format:Audio CD
If you've experienced Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair, you know what La Dispute is about. If not, you'll just have to listen; I can't do these guys justice. This time around the instrumentals take a backseat to Jordan's masterful vocals, which interweave two distinct (but eventually blurred) narratives, one a discontinuous and elusive account of personal loss and the other a series of stories that explore the themes like death, fear, abandonment, loneliness, and (deeply buried here) hope. Wildlife is an emotional and musical roller coaster, bounding through the darkest depths of the human condition. But just when you think you've hit rock bottom and all is lost, you are delivered to an overwhelmingly beautiful, cathartic, explosive finale. Like another reviewer said, Wildlife isn't an album you can expect to appreciate after a casual listen (which, sadly, probably turns off a lot of would-be fans). It takes a real investment of your heart and your mind. But it will grow on you like crazy.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Wildlife
18 Nov 2011
Format:Audio CD
Let's talk about emo/screamo music. This genre has one of the worst reps in all of the music industry, and it's not difficult to see why; A bunch of douchebags in skinny jeans with hair straighteners and low self esteem started listening to it, and then those douchebags that listened to the original, good stuff and decided to make an emo band of their own. Yay! And then more douchebags listened to that douchebags band and made their own band and so on and so forth. We are so far down that line of recycled emo/screamo/post-hardcore music that it's near impossible to even imagine that good music has ever, or could ever still be produced within the genre. But hark! Along comes La Dispute and takes a big steamy dump all over everyone's preconceptions.
The fact of the matter is that in whatever genre, no matter how bad of a reputation it has, there will always be a solid amount of artists still producing objectively good music within it. La Dispute are not the only good screamo/post-hardcore band around, but they are the last of a dying breed (or the first of a new batch, hopefully?). They make music that is sincerely emotional and depressing in the truest sense. The lyrical themes are dark and bleak, often focusing on the nature of suffering, sin and redemption, decay, internal struggles and struggles of interrelation.
The album is best heard in a single setting for it's full emotional impact. The lyrics are vivid and full of imagery, and contain a very poetic and lucid quality to them. They are told from the perspective of a writer, as many of the songs contain focused narratives which work as short stories, and there are four tracks spread throughout the album which act as the author's liner notes; monologues projecting the pain and anguish of his own creative process.
I can easily see a lot of people being turned off of this band due to their melodramatic nature and lead vocalist Jordan Dreyer's somewhat frantic delivery. Although these in actuality are the bands greatest strengths. Dreyer frequently alternates between hardcore screaming, singing and spoken word very unpredictably, as if he can't control his voice. He uses this absolutely masterfully, it's the kind of performance that has the power to make your hairs stand straight, but only if you let it. As I say, his delivery is not for everyone, his vocal inflection sounds similar to a lot of other really, really bad bands out there, however none of them have ever used this style to produce something this genuinely moving until now.
La Dispute have managed to create a harrowing tapestry of pain, anguish and suffering. The lyrics create a world where everything decays and dies, redemption is futile and hopes and dreams are for the people unable to take an honest look at the world. It is a work as painful as it is beautiful, and deserves full recognition for it's artistic achievement, regardless of it's genre ties, and should serve as a wake-up call that good art can be made in any shape or size (or sound!).
The fact of the matter is that in whatever genre, no matter how bad of a reputation it has, there will always be a solid amount of artists still producing objectively good music within it. La Dispute are not the only good screamo/post-hardcore band around, but they are the last of a dying breed (or the first of a new batch, hopefully?). They make music that is sincerely emotional and depressing in the truest sense. The lyrical themes are dark and bleak, often focusing on the nature of suffering, sin and redemption, decay, internal struggles and struggles of interrelation.
The album is best heard in a single setting for it's full emotional impact. The lyrics are vivid and full of imagery, and contain a very poetic and lucid quality to them. They are told from the perspective of a writer, as many of the songs contain focused narratives which work as short stories, and there are four tracks spread throughout the album which act as the author's liner notes; monologues projecting the pain and anguish of his own creative process.
I can easily see a lot of people being turned off of this band due to their melodramatic nature and lead vocalist Jordan Dreyer's somewhat frantic delivery. Although these in actuality are the bands greatest strengths. Dreyer frequently alternates between hardcore screaming, singing and spoken word very unpredictably, as if he can't control his voice. He uses this absolutely masterfully, it's the kind of performance that has the power to make your hairs stand straight, but only if you let it. As I say, his delivery is not for everyone, his vocal inflection sounds similar to a lot of other really, really bad bands out there, however none of them have ever used this style to produce something this genuinely moving until now.
La Dispute have managed to create a harrowing tapestry of pain, anguish and suffering. The lyrics create a world where everything decays and dies, redemption is futile and hopes and dreams are for the people unable to take an honest look at the world. It is a work as painful as it is beautiful, and deserves full recognition for it's artistic achievement, regardless of it's genre ties, and should serve as a wake-up call that good art can be made in any shape or size (or sound!).
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