Labels: Friendly Otter – La AgonÃa de Vivir – Off Cloud Nine – Pike – React With Protest
Review by: Oli Saunders
Delos released the only screamo record that I significantly liked last year and are back with two songs on this split. It’s good, though it’s being ruined by my terrible laptop speakers. The music doesn’t hook me as much as the 12” did but it’s still pretty damn good: melodic guitars, anguished dualled screams, extra intense bits; it’s all there and done very well.
Yusuke are newer, I think only a year old, and are all over the place. Their blurb says ‘Tyler is really into Resurrectionists. Tony is really into Honeywell. Ryan is really into Louise Cyphre’. What we end up with a sort of mishmash of Euro screamo and vocals that border on the shrieky Spirit of Versailles phase. Overall, I can’t say this record blows me away but live I bet both these two are spot on.
10th January 2014