Ruckus Array by excessive visage

"There’s a smokey, café jazz atmosphere to the melodies and vocal delivery on Ruckus Array, married to complex musical materials reminiscent of math rock, and a punk intensity in its sonic character and performances. Sounds like a mish-mash? Well, in practice, it just sounds like a group of musicians doing what they do… a group of highly skilled and uncompromisingly creative musicians. There’s a distinct streak of darkness running through these sounds, an ominous and uneasy atmosphere, that sits well with the power and drama of the arrangements, but it is not allowed to dominate the music, or to determine its forms; Excessive Visage have a distinctive and identifiable sound, but they don’t adopt any set of formulae that could be abstracted to embody the lineaments of a genre. Instead they forge a language of their own, identifiably rock, and not forbiddingly avant-garde, but uniquely specific, and extremely powerful. Song-based electric guitar music doesn’t get much better than this."

" 'Ruckus Array' marks a bold evolutional step for Excessive Visage, besides its superb production it possesses an unique sound, that seems so impossible to achieve nowadays, where everything seems to have been tried out before.
It ́s a record full of contrasts loaded with melodic and rhythmic ideas and experimentations."

"... hier haben sich fünf detailverliebte Tüftler ausgetobt. 'Ruckus Array' wimmelt nur so vor asymmetrischen Rhythmen und Metren, mit geradezu akribisch-exakter Präzision und Komplexität komponiert und ausgefeilt. ... Das Excessive Visage'sche Chaos hat ein geradezu mathematisch-logisches System. ... 'Ruckus Array' bricht radikal mit liebgewordenen Hörgewohnheiten, mixt die Bruchstücke mehrmals kräftig durch und überlässt es dem Hörer dann, dieses Durcheinander für sich selbst neu zusammenzusetzen. Wer genau daran Spaß hat, wird seine helle Freude an diesem Album entwickeln. ... " (Rocktimes)

They forge a language of their own, identifiably rock, and not forbiddingly avant-garde, but uniquely specific, and extremely powerful.
There’s a distinct streak of darkness running through these sounds, an ominous and uneasy atmosphere, that sits well with the power and drama of the arrangements.

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