With a dark image and a band name like The Unknown it may have crossed your mind that when placing this album into the player you maybe struck by crashing metal anthems. You’re in for a welcome surprise.
The album begins with the electronic and mellow Nocturnal. The opener creates a sound and atmosphere that fails to fall beyond the limits set throughout the whole album and though certain areas remind you of Portishead and Massive Attack, it’s also hard to block out the distinctive vox sounding just a little like Madonna on her darker tracks.
With a few listens this album begins to take a hold on how you listen to the music. At first you can hear the instruments and the vocals but with a further few listens other elements of the music filter through the collection of sounds and begin to help the style set a mood. And even though the spirit of the album has a consist pace it’s clear that here is a band that don’t mind experimenting with effects and twisting their songs from a basic guitar riff to a mixture of euphoric soundscapes.
As the album draws to a close you can imagine the songs being played live. The dark venue being lit by only a couple of white lights and the silence being broken by a guitar sound that feels as if it should have been playing the whole time. They may only be playing smaller venues for a short amount of time so it’s worth checking them out before they start their rise.
