Back to the technical stuff. Been listening to Animals As Leaders, this is their 5th release, Parrhesia. Actually, I had been listening to this for a while already, took a break from listening to tech guitar playing & now back to it. These days, when it comes to AAL, I'm paying more attention to the drums, mostly. Matt Garstka is a beast. His approach to rhythm & fitting ideas into songs is phenomenal. I'm also listening more to what Javier Reyes is doing as a fellow guitarist in the band knowing the highlight would fall on Tosin Abasi for his unique slap guitar approach which I believe is only useful if one plays something with thick strings for those low, distorted notes. I'm actually not into this kind of playing. Anyway, Parrhesia is typical AAL, metal vibe al round but disassociating themselves from being one per se. I feel that this release has a certain brush of heaviness to the music which was missing in the previous release as illustrated by the first two tracks (Conflict Cartography / Monomyth). Also present in this release, extensive dreamscape passages (Asahi being the prominent of them all) fit for artistic use more than pleasing the instrumentalists.
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