There
has always been a soft spot in my heart for math rock and I never truly
understood why until I listened to this cassette. On this EP by Race to Your Face there are
barely any vocals (some slight on the first song, but not even really words)
and the songs can steer away from the blatant math rock formula and delve into
bands like The Casket Lottery, I Kill Giants and Buttons and Mindy. On the whole though, this is a math rock
album.
Years
upon year s ago, I had a friend in a band that also ran a label and he was very
heavily into the math rock. I had almost
completely forgotten about him and really should look him up to see if he’s
still making music and all. This tape is
what made me think of him though because all I could think of was there being
this quality to a band that when I placed them I remembered him releasing an
album of theirs (not that their name matters now)
The
drumming on this EP is strictly amazing and really accents the guitar riffs
perfectly. While I do believe this to
be mostly math rock still, which is fine by me, at the end it does take a turn
into the world of video games. Now
lately I’ve been listening to a lot of 8bit music but this isn’t being made
with Gameboys or even computers in any way.
No, this type of video game sound recalls to mind more the band The
Advantage, who I also really need to look up and see whether or not they still
exist.
A good
piece of music makes you want to listen to it over and over again until the
band makes new songs and then you add those into the mix as well. A good cassette can help you to jar a certain
sense of nostalgia in many ways. “This
Be EP” by Race to Your Face does both.
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