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COME HELL OR HIGH WATER

The Flowers Of Hell

 

Post Rock/Math rock

3.00 | 3 ratings

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Sean Trane
Special Collaborator
Prog Folk
3 stars Second album from the UK pos-rock combo, this time enhanced with a bunch of guest and recorded over both sides of the Atlantic. Despite the vast line-up, apparently only Ruth Barlow left the band, but given the messy instrument credit list, it's rather hard to tell if she's been replaced or not. They've been playing so many different tools, probably each other's, that it looks like an orgy, but sadly this isn't anything close to wild stuff, on the contrary. In either case, FOH uses another folk-type of artwork for their digipak, but it's definitely not any folkier than their typical post-rock of their debut release.

But CHOHW isn't an exact carbon copy of its predecessor, it has its own particularities, namely the phantasmagorical and aptly-named Forest Of Noise, where there are orchestral enhancements. There are other atypical traits when comparing to its older brother, but again nothing groundbreaking or even a tad refreshing that would add a bit to the genre's well flogged-to-death clichés. Unless you're a total post-rock nutcase, FoH is nothing to write home about, but it's one more building block to Babel's unending tower

Sean Trane | 3/5 |

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