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Envy

THISQUIETARMY: Unconquered
Foreshadow

THISQUIETARMY's Unconquered, a fifty-four-minute travelogue by Canada-based experimental guitarist and DESTROYALLDREAMERS member Eric Quach, begins promisingly with the sweeping dronescape “Immobilization” where Quach is joined by kindred axesmith Aidan Baker (NADJA). It's an album of many moods, with the understated ambiance of the opening bleeding into the haunted atmospheres of “Battlefield Arkestrah,” where guitar-generated sheets and washes billow forth in epic manner, and the molten metallic swarm of “Warchitects” and “The Sun Destroyers.” Adrift in soft loops of hazy strums, the appropriately ponderous “Death of a Sailor” unspools slowly until a lead guitar rises from the ashes like smoke, after which “The Great Escapist” appears, a funereal dirge with vocals by Meryem Yildiz that are fine if rather buried somewhat within the mix. “Mercenary Flags” builds tension in classic GYBE style with a repeating chord hammering like a death knell while shuddering electrical atmospheres congeal and turn pitch black.

May 2008