WIidetrack Get Ready For A Full Album Release
An upcoming album release from Widetrack does an outstanding job of blending some of the best parts of heavy rock genres and putting them together to create an atmosphere that's all its own, all while having some emotional backbone and inventive guitar work throughout its course.
The Galatea album reinforces this band's ability to bring on something that's got layers to it. This record features some incredible alternative rock, progressive, heavy indie rock, but so much more, all while staying true to itself by showcasing such lush personality.
I am certainly hearing classic rock influences throughout this record as well, and it's just incredible how they take all these elements of heavy rock genres and blend them seamlessly into each other throughout the record's play through.
This is fun because you really never know what to expect. By the time you get a few songs into the record, you start to actually expect the unexpected, and I find that completely refreshing.
Some songs are more driving and hit harder, while others are vast in their undertone and have that progressive expansive feeling, almost like they could be cinematic or even theatrical.
The introduction track called "Saturnine" starts with that expansive and classic rock feeling acoustic intro where it stripped down more to vocals and guitars and this sends out that emotional backbone but then bursts into that heavy rock feel with some augmented chords and inventive, experimental approaches that let the song hit hard just at the right time.
The track is followed by one called "Red", which comes in with a much heavier and addictive riff and hits elements of punk and alternative rock right from the start.
So, by the time you get to that third track, you're almost on the edge of your seat, not knowing exactly what's next but knowing that it will be good.
The next track is called "Lycanthropic", and this track displays much more of a grunge feel leaning towards that late 90s or early 2000s thick and heavy Distortion and tonality along with riffs that thrash a little bit but don't go over the top.
This goes on, and you get progressive elements throughout the record. The songs are separated and broken up in such a way that it keeps everything super interesting and leaves room for little breathers here and there, along with plenty of calms before the storms.
The drumming is key throughout this album, as they add so much drive and vigor to the record that everything comes through as vivacious when it wants to be and blends that inventive color with edginess constantly.
By the time you get to the last end title track of the record, you get the same Vibe you did from the first track that introduced it all.
A song that starts with that calmness. That progressive guitar work and clean, acoustic feel then burst into a heavy soundscape to close out the record.
This record was a rock soiree and delivered more than I expected, with every element pushing the next.
The vocals were powerful when they needed to be and still displayed a slightly theatrical or emotional backbone, and then all worked so perfectly with the drive of the songs.
The Galatea album is set for release this coming April, and you can catch tracks like "Red" or "Saturnine" on the band's website, which is below.
Definitely take a deep dive into this one because I'm sure if you love well-built heavy rock music with inventive approaches and slightly outside-the-box thinking, thematically driven and intense undertones, This Record is 100% for you.
In the meantime, keep your eye out for the album coming this April.
