Reviews: The Moirai - Bury Yourself
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Highwire Daze
Art waves of sound and emotion make you crave for more from this New Jersey band. I thought the sound from Revelation Records recording group Elliott was gone for good. This long playing EP is very similar in compiling images and soundscapes and flowing in, out and all around through them in the same way Elliott did but stronger yet. For a debut release its amazing what alternative rock and emo can do well mixed together. The sound is familiar to such other bands as Slowdive, Sunny Day Real Estate and Muse. This is very moving. It captures you and moves you endlessly through a good 40 minutes of music without stopping either. Some of the great tracks are: A Terrible Secret, Bury Yourself, Crucifixion As An Art Form and Water Is The New Fire. Wonder what the live show from this band would be like...hmm.
Fire Alive (http://www.FireAlive.it)
The Moirai's music is music of soul, dark, sonic, melodic in low spirits. Moirai play an intelligent and well made emotional post-hardcore with sophisticated song structures: Moirai's sound is a melodic innovation expressing Moirai's musical concept through "soft core" parts, blowing an extraordinary energy that you could absorbing only in pieces. Every song goes to the next with creativity and passion, and around the voice involves love and compassion through atmospheres of warm shivers where every sound is perfectly balanced. Moirai have an undeniable understanding of their instruments, their style is dynamic making of this album about something really professional, deep and cathartic. Something for lost souls, and fine ears. Compliments.
Purerock.de (http://www.purerock.de)
Yes, it is Emo, which The Moirai play. What was understood once by it, as I with the style direction in contact came and as my heroes Elliott, Mineral and above all Sunny Day Estate was called material.
Above all the latters must the sound of the Bury Yourself EP more largely cornerstone be, want one describe. These tender, nearly fragile, very melancholischen melodies, easily mostly of a key board, which now and then in the post office rockige going understanding of Dramatik, and the faith that beauty must be emotional and that a singer must put schmachtend and formally breaking into his microphone around the effect to show to be demonstrated is.
This singing is the only deficiency of the EP, which are otherwise marvelous, because them offer evenly a concept of EMO, which lets perhaps remind of the old, slow anti-heroes (earliest the conception of a mixture from Sunny Day fits material Estate and Sigur Ròs), and not of volume, who actually let the term e-m-o make for many the insult word.
The singing is unfortunately too thin and too average for the close melody walls. Harm, otherwise Bury Yourself could have become absolutely outstanding release.
It is still sadder however that those was volume my impression that the despair at the edge of the self dissolution does not only oscillate well played, but that it bitter reality: The Moirai separated few days ago because of internal difficulties.
Living Underground (http://www.livingunderground.net)
"Bury Yourself", the debut CDEP from The Moirai plays for over 40 minutes having tremendous value without the high sticker price. In fact, you can purchase the "long-play" EP from Engineer Records' website for a mere $8. The EP consists of 8 harmonious tracks packed with energy and astounding vocals reminiscent of Penfold. Each track flows graciously like a river soothing your body every step of the way. "Bury Yourself" is a must have and I recommend it to anyone who likes intellectual, soft-paced music. There's not too much more to say other than that The Moirai is amazing. Pick up the EP and bury yourself. The Moirai features past members of Penfold and December Aeternalis. More info is available by visiting the links below.
