Experience Feelings

Description

New album from Seattle, WAs Constant Lovers.

The Seattle quartet have mastered the power of repetition and very loud noises. Experience Feelings, their second studio album, achieves a heavy-rocking Zen state that any deep-thinking hesher will tell you is the metaphysical end-goal of headbanging. Theres something inherently funny in repetition; say the same dumb joke over and over and it assumes a surreal hilarity.

So not only is Experience Feelings spiky and abrasive, its also belligerently charming. Credit vocalist Joel Cuplin and guitarist Eric Fisher: The formers unhinged yelp is a class clowns manic demand for attention; the latters brilliant, obtuse solos shatter the rhythm sections martial lines and blow songs apart (see album crux Cry Me a River and 14 Missed Calls) like so much beautiful wreckage. Until, of course, that mantra pulls them back together again. Jonathan Zwickel