MAUDITS Drop A Progressive Record

A wonderfully composed new album from Maudits delivers a very lush soundscape and progressive rock approach that breeds cinematic backbone and this enormous atmosphere that you end up getting pulled into right from the start.

This is an album that gives you a lot to chew on, especially in the way of guitar work, aesthetic, and robust, spacious tonality that feels engulfing in all of the best ways.

The In Situ album kicks things off with a track called "Leftovers", which displays a lot of that progressive songwriting attribute but also breeds a heavier sort of alternative rock underbelly, with edgy guitar tones, and still manages to keep to this never-ending flow that lets you sort of swim through the track, even though it's got a heavier edge to it.

Right off the bat, you noticed that the drumming is really incredible here. I feel like the drumming does give the band a lot to push off of, and throughout the record, you hear some great time signatures and approaches from the drums that enable some of these songs to work the way that they do.

"Fall Over" is the track that follows, and this one gets a little bit deeper in terms of its heaviness. You can hear a little bit of doom rock-inspired, slightly sludgy, and very heavy riffs throughout this one. The drums are absolutely slamming through this track, and its entirety, and the guitars really produce such a vast but really hard-hitting tone.

The track has some great changes and breeds eclectic and intelligent approaches in songwriting as it breaks into different parts that had a dream-like soundscape to the song.

A lot of these tracks provide amazing change-ups that you don't really see coming, so the whole record ends up keeping you on your toes.

It is absolutely packed with surprising parts, and although a lot of the guitar and bass guitar work, along with the drums and everything else are very intricate, they all have this kind of heart, and the atmosphere that it ends up breeding is something that feels almost fantastical, in a sense.

It's widespread and has that beautifully vast tonality that takes you on a pretty immense journey.

Throughout this album, you have a great fluctuation and intensity. A lot of the songs themselves each have those same kinds of fluctuations.

As I mentioned earlier, there are great changes throughout the record and songs that you don't really expect.

There's also plenty of experimental approaches throughout this release, including songs like "Carre d'As" which has digital beats in the beginning along with spoken word Style vocals, and then breaks into a world of heaviness.

There's something very theatrical about this album as well. Listening to the entire thing from start to finish really gives you an amazing kind of experience that you will not forget.

A lot of people would consider this post-metal, post-hardcore, even post-rock, but it is a very sonically present record that pays a lot of attention to how the tones of their instruments come through, as well as the spacious arrangements of these songs.

"Lev-Ken" is the song that closes the record, and it's one of my favorites, to be honest.

Layers of delayed guitars form melodies and transformations along with amazing percussion and deep-rooted bass guitar tone. Songs like this work in different ways because they add more of that expansive approach, but in a different way.

You still hear a lot of the grit and edginess in its underbelly, but for the most part, tracks like this keep to the dreamlike sound.

The band even performs a cover of a song from Portishead called "Roads", which sticks to some of the original's sentiment and aesthetic but is definitely taken in a different direction. It has a great eeriness and an almost dark overtone to it.

There are a lot of outstanding segments and songs throughout this record that make it completely worth it to listen to the full album.

If you do so, do it with headphones so you can soak it all in properly, and I'm positive that you will be in for an immense and huge musical experience that takes you through a gamut of emotion and sensation, Sonic attributes, and progressive songwriting.

The whole thing is done with a particular kind of elegance to it, even parts that are heavy.

It's been a while since I've heard a record of this nature, and it was completely intelligent and gracefully heavy.

Check this one out now because you absolutely don't want to miss it.

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