Labels: Utarid
Review by: Oli Saunders
Jose Phine are one of the many Malaysian bands that have cropped up in the last few years, and they are definitely one of the best. They appear to have been around since 2005, so it’s taken a while for them to get a demo out, unless they have previous demos that I don’t know about. This is a tape version on Utarid Tapes of a demo they self released not too long back on CDr. This has one extra song though, hell yeh!
The band play the whole ‘lets make fairly melodic but fast guitar driven music whilst someone is tortured in time to it’ routine. There is reasonable variance in what’s going on, there are quiet and fast bits. It’s screamo done very well in my opinion.
Track two ‘Bulanbintang’ is a highlight. Is starts off fast, has a nice melodic part before exploding again amongst dual screamed vocals. The melodic guitars return briefly before the screamed finale kicks in. Really good!
A nicely put together package as usual from Utarid Tapes, the tape comes in a semi transparent plastic case. The band are going on a tour of Malaysia and Indonesia in January with Tyrant, Dying in Motion and Full-Chin. If you want a starting point for current Malaysian screamo then this is it.
13th December 2008