We Vs Death - A Black House, A Coloured Home

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4...according to our Phil on Thu 26 Nov, 2009.

I've always liked the name We Vs Death. I don't know what it means or the idea behind it all is but there's something about it that just appeals. We got a CD in by these guys this week called A Black House, A Coloured Home. Firstly the packaging... it comes inside a big foldy poster with about a million postcards inside and a book thing with pictures in. Oh and there's a CD too. It's one of the craziest things I've seen in a while. They're a Dutch post rock/ prog style band in case you didn't know. They hang around at the lighter end of post rock with nice crisp sounding clean (yet discordant) guitars, some vocals here and there, a brass section and a fat meaty sounding drum kit holding it all together. It's got a very sharp Albini/ esque/ Chicago production to it. It's quite epic in its scope as well with the songs shifting pace in the blink of an eye. I like the brass section and guitars a lot. They work well together. Very interesting indeed! It's one of a bunch of titles we got in this week on the Beep Beep label!

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You might remember these postrockers by their previous album 'We are too concerned'. Their second full-length album might surprise you with both noisy and more
quiet songs... and some distinct singing! After Holland they'll be releasing in Germany later this year and working on a European tour. The packaging and artwork on this one is insane!

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