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Silent Disorder -
Everything Burns EP
Anyone else remember Soundclick? Before
Fokissed? Does anyone even remember
Fokissed? Or Soundclick, for that matter? I guess some things are best forgotten? Probably so. But even the desert supports life. That's where I first ran into
Heron Demarco 4 years ago when he released
Mutiny.
Back then, he was hungry and thirsty but mired in hardcore rap posturing, boxing invisible foes (among them, the goliath music industry which currently eats its own fecal matter for survival and clearly doesn’t need his or any of our help to off itself).
But if you heard
Mutiny’s final track
Fire Flies, you immediately knew Heron had it in him to become the hip hop lovechild of
Prince and
Jimi Hendrix that he is today. Today, he's the lead guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist, and front man of
Silent Disorder. After Mutiny, he realized he needed a new crew—or a crew to begin with—so he recruited a talented young bassist and drummer to round out the outfit.
Their debut EP
Everything Burns is neither polished perfection nor indulgent experimentation. But with a name like
Everything Burns, what would you expect? Okay, maybe you'd expect hit-and-miss experimentation (though you’d expect that with any independent album), but that’s not what you’ll get. "Everything Burns" is a deconstruction and restructuring of the familiar, capturing the spirit of Nas,
Canibus,
Metallica,
Rakim,
Prince, and Hendrix in a new package.
Tumbling Down is fresh with observations on the current state of the world from economic apocalypse (“Wall Street’s lust in the mass consumption would have us broken, rusted, with motherfuckin’ nothing’“) to America's first black President ("I grew up with hood crooks that look like me, but now there's a man in office that looks like me"), perfectly framing his own mantra: "Fuck green lights. I do it now." As Heron's world—our world—has tumbled down around him, he's grown. The directionless pugilist has transformed into the leader of his own movement.
Everyone's a Criminal might be the album's most creative and experimental track, interweaving a JFK speech into an irregular drum beat and another strong guitar riff from Heron. These, the end solo, and the accompanying shuffling drums make for great music. Lyrically, the song touches on humanity's connections. Be they crook, criminal, priest, pope, or the average human being, "we're all cut from the same cloth."
When the bass first hit on
Slither, it became my immediate favorite. No questions. The bass continues slowly slithering to more complex proportions in its glorious end as Heron expresses his relationship woes with friends and lovers alike: "I don't trust nothin' that breathes, moves, or pisses… It's 'where do you stand when the earth cracks beneath us?'" All of this coupled with a perfect classic metal/rock tinge keeps me playing and replaying this track.
Less Colder, the tail to Slither's head, is all love—a track for the ladies with smooth keyboards and raw-but-reassuring emotions. But unlike most love songs, it’s honest and real, examining and addressing his past inconsistencies in love.
Wolves is a clear tribute to his
Mutiny-era fans, the chorus with its
M.O.P.-esque voice strains and shouts and the heavier reliance on one-liners than the album's other tracks. The distorted guitar line that slowly creeps into the triumphant chorus echoes
Iron Butterfly's
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. On first listen, this was my least favorite track, but the riff-age kept me coming back for more. And now, it doesn't feel right to call it my least favorite track on the album because, on any other album, it could easily be one of the stronger tracks.
Finally, we arrive at the title track
Everything Burns, an introduction to a bluesier sound and the return of the keys, this time an organ. My second-favorite song, it takes me back to a better time when organic music was still king.
Silent Disorder fuses a warm, live sound with well put-together-but-not-overly-polished instrumentation and song structures. The bass ensures you feel it, the drums ensure you nod your head, the guitar/keyboards ensure you this isn’t amateur hour, and the lyrics ensure you’ll be thinking about this album later. No, it’s not a masterpiece, but it’s only the debut EP, and it's easily the best album I've heard so far this year as it will likely remain. So as the infrastructure of our society crumbles around us, at least we’ve got good music.
My rating: 4/5 stars
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