An EP release from The Endless Weight can combine a more progressive and vaster soundscape with a rock tonality so everything about this release feels like it's leaning on a cinematic backbone, and it feels really cool because it becomes expansive but still gives lush and wonderful guitar work the entire time.
The Burden of Time EP spans five pieces of music and each one not only gives off a little bit of a different vibe or emotion, but it also paints a different picture.
What I mean is, each track takes you on a little bit of a musical journey, and with those Journeys come different moods so you're able to float or flow alongside these tracks super easily but while you do, you begin to think of situations or memories even.
Some of these songs actually evoke emotions and memories of your own. They create thought and I think that's a very connective thing that doesn't happen often.
It's almost like reading a book where you get a situation, character, and some emotion.
You fill in the blanks with your imagination as you read the book.
You picture things that you're reading but each reader will picture it a little bit differently because each person is different.
The same goes for when listening to a record like this one. Each listener will soak it in a little differently and when they listen to the songs their imagination will give them different pictures or situations, scenarios are people.
This is such a cool thing and it's just a natural forward-moving flow that happens when you listen to this record.
Of course, this is very guitar-driven and again does have a little bit of a rock undertone which I love but all in all, the guitar work is outstanding and is the driving force behind everything.
You can tell that there was a lot of attention to detail that went into the progressions and arrangements of these songs but there's also a little bit of what I feel like is improv. Or just a sense of freedom. These are songs that are built with fewer boundaries or walls around them and so when you listen to them you can sort of feel that spaciousness.
This is certainly more of a concept record than you'd initially think and the songs do have ways of interconnecting if you let them.
Again, it's up to the listener how they want to interpret but for me, this was indeed a concept record and each song was like a chapter in a book indeed.
The performances across the board were done with a sort of gracefulness and you have to have a real love for the craft to create a record like this.
When I say that, I don't just mean playing the guitar, I mean creating pieces of music that can affect someone when they listen to it.
I do feel like a lot of the stuff was very personal to the artist and this was their way of releasing it out into the world which is a very important aspect of life for artists in general.
You can just hear that authenticity on the record and you can feel a lot of that emotion in the performances as well.
This makes everything just so genuine.
An absolutely gorgeous release with a very personal approach, a beautiful balance of emotional drive and melodic tonality, and this elegant sort of underbelly in the performance of everything.
A record that was orchestrated but had a sense of openness and freedom.
I would suggest listening to this record from start to finish with headphones on because it's one of the best ways to soak in everything that's happening throughout these songs and this way you can hold on to the atmosphere that's given.
Remember where you heard it first.
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