lördag 10 Jun 2006, 22:18

Lucerin Blue, like so many bands today, defies being placed into a single category. They have combined post-grunge bass and drums with driving guitar rhythms and not-quite-rap vocals to create a sound that while not inventive is enjoyable.
The first 30 seconds of the album may sound like you bought the wrong CD but don’t be alarmed. They open with a nice, quiet piano melody before cranking up the barre chords and the pounding drums. Then the vocals kick in with full force.

Almost every track on the album has the same driving guitar sound, which makes it a very consistent album. A couple of songs, “Chorus of the Birds” and “Cold” flirt with being slow enough to warrant consideration as ballads, but not quite.

Like many of the new generation of Christian rock bands, they don’t proclaim with every song their religious beliefs. But a few tracks do try to make you think about the world and the God they serve.

From “Black Pyramid”

The pleasures of life are too much for one shoulder
Try and drop the weigh you can’t hold it
Why o why can’t they see
The nail scarred hands that are waiting so patiently

Tales of the Knife is a very enjoyable, listenable album. Their music is on the edge of being rapcore, but with more melody and less of the all-out rap vocals that defined bands such as Rage Against the Machine.