MAV. ‘Enter’. First band’s album review
‘Enter’. This simple laconic word declares the young Italian band’s MAV enter into the music scene.
The album begins with the composition “Akynetik”. Sharply rhythm beating drums, cold “offscreen” vocals, guitar accords and synth sounds create anxious and algetic atmosphere. Then the sluggish and wistful song, named “Lamento”, follows and changes into more energetic theme of “Il crepuscolo della coscienza”, where keyboards come to the foreground and form the general melody. The fourth track, “Vuoto” possesses the dynamic sound and lively emotional vocals, which acquires here some kind of ethnic execution’s manner, as it seems to me. “Insana Insonnia” is a nervous electronic tune with somewhat hysterical vocals, which apt digital processing just only increases the impression. In general, this song is a potentially successful club’s theme. “In My Brain” takes us back into the album’s beginning depressive rhythm and atmosphere, thereby imparting distinctive cyclical completeness to its composition.
“Diane’s dream” is the album’s closing theme, some kind of outro, which I want to dwell on. It’s a 164 second track composed of turning into each other classical and synth piano tunes that can be reckoned in “new edge” music direction. It isn’t a reason to compare «MAV» band and «Amethystium», for example, or other bands like, but for me it is the reason to conjecture that if one day a side “new edge” project with Francesco’s participation will started, it might come out very exciting.
“Enter” deserves a lot of compliments. Interesting vocals, which artistry is skillfully complemented by digital processing, nice rhythm, and specific post-punk guitar sounds, which are especially felt in «Akynetik» and «In my brain», exciting keyboards, which add to the melodies some charismatic components, and general album’s atmosphere, which is wistful, but clear – all of this is worth to make a special mention. There is no precise genre of music, in this respect album turned out quite diverse, maybe it will not catch everybody fancy, but it definitely testify the band’s great creative potential and enthusiasm, which they put into a peculiar try to please all the obscure music fans at once.
And I must say that this try doesn’t seem unsuccessful. MAV’s enter on the dark scene has happened and came out sufficiently interesting to deserve listener’s attention.
Nikolai ‘Tacitus’ Polyakov
‘Grave Jibes Fanzine’
