With this new release, Antwerp region's Codasync delivers its 5th album in just as many years, and again manages to do something different while at the same time remaining within their specific niche of instrumental (modern) Progressive Jam Rock/ Metal.
You see, the band's debut Mows Arred (review by yours truly posted 10/03/2009 – still available in the website's archive) was a garage-recorded affair, but set the tone for what was to follow on In Galoré which, with added horns, was a more bombastic studio recording (review posted 13/05/2010) done at the band's vastly improved home studio. For the ensuing Snacycod (review posted 08/02/1011), the band used live and rehearsal recordings which they reworked by adding an extra acoustic guitar. For the band's 4th release Akronize, (which was made available as a free download...and a review posted 08/04/2012) things became slightly more serious, the band partly using Antwerp's Tin Pan Alley studio to record the material.
For their fifth album, Codasync upped the ante even more, this time actually working with well-rehearsed tracks (the one exception being “Scarab Root Dance”, which has a relatively loose theme around which the band jams during live performances) before doing most of the recordings (guitarist Bram Van Houtte engineering) at dEUS' Vantage Point studio (additions were done at a couple of other places). In all, the band took much longer to work on this album, than ever before. Work in fact started already before the release of Akronize, the band fine-tuning the tracks (in the rehearsal place as well as during gigs) into strictly repeatable rehearsed material as the recording time approached.
For once, I will forego getting into the material song-by-song, as the band did that quite well themselves on their website (www.) codasync.com...which is also where you'll find a link (see “Music” section) to the album's (say, albums') page(s) on bandcamp...where you are allowed to get an earful of the material. Nice, is that the band provides the possibility for people to either buy the material digitally (at a very nicely reduced price), or in the form of a 12-inch album with added CD. I have to say, the sound quality on the vinyl is not of the same standard as on the CD. Still, a very nice positive effort on behalf of the band. Not that I personally needed any convincing to start with, as this is one of my favourite bands in Belgium! And not just when that musical mood gets me, you know! Nah, it's enough for me to put on the band's music, and I am completely immersed into said mood!