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Review: 'Sonificade'
'Despite All the Noise'   

-  Album: 'Despite All the Noise' -  Label: 'Circular Records'
-  Genre: 'Indie' -  Release Date: '22nd April 2016'-  Catalogue No: 'CR1048'

Our Rating:
Midlands 4-piece Sonificade describe themselves as an ‘alternative indie rock band’. Like all the other alternative indie rock bands who hail from all around the country, and all around the world. Alternative to what? I wonder.

‘Despite All the Noise’ is their debut album, and follows the release of single ‘Me Can Out’, which features alongside 10 other cuts of alternative indie rock. On balance, their sound places emphasis on the rock aspect, with some beefy basslines driving the bulk of the songs here.

‘Regardless’ steps into 80s rock territory, the guitarline casting a nod to U2, and throwing a chorus of immense proportions. In contrast, the slow-burning eight-minute colossus ‘What If’ breaks out of a downtempo shoegaze verse into a driving chorus, rent with emotion.

‘Despite All the Noise’ shows Sonoficade have got range. ‘Crossfire’ goes a bit Rolling Stones, ‘D.U.I’ finds vocalist James Best sounding like a more raw, ragged, David Sylvian amidst a roar of guitars and spiralling synths. It all culminates with another curveball, a sprawling 10-minute behemoth in the form of ‘Brain Disease’. Slowly it unfurls and builds to a surging climax, harmonies rising through shimmering guitars. It’s a fitting finale to a veritable rollercoaster of an album, with some great tunes, a lot of atmosphere and a lot of energy, which, it transpires, is an alternative to so much of the limp, identikit slop kicking around at the moment.

Sonificade Online


  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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Sonificade - Despite All the Noise