The Shadow's Gone Out Drop A Wild EP
A fresh new release from The Shadow's Gone Out has a unique way of delivering a lush and edgy heavy rock atmosphere that comes along with these layers of tones and textures that create an atmosphere that does have aggression but also this amazing progressive tonality.
The John Doe EP is riddled with character and this gives it an added addictive attribute because these songs are instrumental rock if you will, but there are also elements of industrial, metal, alternative rock, garage, and so much more that is involved here.
If you ask me, there are a slew of influences that help make this band in this release come to life and you hear hints of all that stuff throughout the songs.
There are even bits of post-punk in there.
Some of the things that make this record unique and special are the performances overall. But the tones of the instruments are really killer here too.
For example, the tone of the bass guitar on the second track called "Unlucky Young Men" has a sort of thinned-out, gritty but sharp sound to it and this is a key factor in how the song ends up feeling aesthetically because that bass guitar tone helps drive the song and give it some of that outside the box feel.
The drumming throughout this record is ridiculous. There is so much to the EP that lets you understand how each member of the band complements the other in terms of their performances.
There is also an element of energy here that's completely electric and it makes you think that some of these songs were recorded live on the floor to an extent at least so, all the players seem like they're feeding off of each other's energies the whole time giving the songs this sort of, alive and breathing feel.
These are not standard rock songs. Again, they are instrumental but they break boundaries and there are no walls built around how they were created so, there's a certain freedom to this but there's also a lot of Sonic drive involved.
There's a lot of there are bits of a dark atmospheric underbelly that exists throughout the course of the release and this is something that hits hard as well.
This element gives the record a bit of a cinematic and vast undertone to go along with the incredible performances and edgy upfront tonalities.
It is very easy to get engulfed by this record even though it's not a very long one, these songs can wrap themselves around you and keep you right where they want to and if you listen to the whole thing, it does feel like a bit of an escape from your own reality because the EP pulls you away from your surroundings and sort of, puts you in a different place altogether.
The record spans three tracks but I would suggest listening to it all the way through because each one has something a little bit different to offer but still sticks to the staple fields of what the record's aesthetic is.
You can hear samples and vocals that aren't singing, but speaking, fading in and out throughout some of the songs and this adds to the cinematic and deepening backbone of it all.
After listening to the record it really made me want to go see this performed live simply because if something so vivacious and heavy-handed can be portrayed so well, especially energy-wise, on record, then seeing it live must be awesome.
I'm not sure if these guys are really a live band of any kind but the record will certainly suffice for now.
This was a very inventive EP that crossed genres, broke boundaries, and did it all for the sake of doing it because you can hear the love for their craft in each track on this release.
Check this out and either turn it nice and loud or listen to it with headphones on which I would actually suggest because that's what I did and it enabled me to soak everything in, especially in terms of the mix of the record and how they panned things left and right.
Dive into this one as soon as you can and you won't soon regret it.
