After more than a decade of listening to hardcore and metal it becomes increasingly difficult to impress me. with a style of music that evokes chaoticness and visceral energy above anything, the more youre exposed to it the more desensitized you become. but Architect have done managed to craft an album thats the aural equivalent of watching uncensored footage of a pack of wolves fighting a pride of lions.
hyperbole aside "All Is Not Lost" is a near flawless record in the style of Coalesce, Botch and Breather Resist, which is to say it's a relentless barrage. "All Is Not Lost" feels uneasy and off kilter not in the calculated way that a Dillinger Escape Plan song does, with its 15 different time signatures, interspersed electronic segues and fusion jazz passages. but instead it feels like a live recording of five dudes whom are truly angry with the world and are beating the hell out of their instruments. this record honestly feels like a throwback to the early era of hardcore Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Agnostic Front et al. not in style, it's far too metal for that, but instead in the way it feels as though the whole album could fall apart at any time, you almost expect to hear the album abruptly stop mid song because someone has knocked over a speaker or thrown a drum in a fit of rage* and im an entirely OK with that.
Architect - Broke Dick Dog
* having seen member's previous bands Found Dead Hanging, Word As A Virus and The August Prophecy on multiple occasions, this expectation of violence is not far from the truth im sure.
