Melt is a Dark Alternative Rock band from France. On December 3rd, 2017, Melt independently released their self-titled debut studio album Melt 1, which includes eight dark rock songs, with a metal spirit that would gratify fans of Swans and Siouxsie & the Banshees.
Introduction:
Melt, Melt: This review will evaluate every aspect of the album, from its intricate musical composition to its production. Our analysis will provide valuable insights to help you determine if this album is worth adding to your collection.
The First Three Sins of Melt
Let’s start by discussing the first three sins of Melt and their Melt album.
The First Sin, The Strings/Keys: Features twin guitar work, with clean and crisp melancholy riffs that are new wave/post-punk influenced with progressive/aggressive tone and passages. The Second Sin, The Vocals: Involves (female vox) chants, shouting, and gruffed vocal work. The Third Sin—The Percussions: This delves into the vast world of filling the music with various tones, beats, tempos, shrikes, and fills.
The Fourth Sin: Overall Discussion: A deliciously dark and intense experience that is hard to forget
As soon as the listener presses the play button, the opening piece, Opikanoba, greets the listener with instrumentation and a vocal introduction that pulls the listener into the music’s raw emotional atmosphere.
The listener continues their journey with the second piece, Stigmata, and the remaining six pieces…
Melt features eight extraordinary tracks that span an impressive thirty-four minutes. Each song blends imaginative English lyrics with progressive and aggressive musical styles. Incorporating various musical elements and sound effects creates a unique and immersive experience, transporting the listener to an alternate reality and disconnecting them from the mundane world.
The album’s composition is a testament to the artist’s musical prowess, showcasing their ability to create a musical experience that is both captivating and spellbinding. Where the listener is taken on twists and turns, leading them to a world beyond their wildest imagination. The result is an unparalleled musical experience that will leave a lasting impression on anyone who listens.
Within the musical spectrum of Melt, we are welcome to a clean sound and recording production. The whole composition of the music comprises various sound and audio clips and robust experimentation of different moods, tempos, melodic parts, and atmospheres.
Melt’s twin guitar work is a shared devilmanship of Olivier and Shiroe. It provides the listener with clean and crisp melancholy riffs that are new wave/post-punk influenced with progressive/aggressive tone and passages, as Julien’s ravaging pickings of thick bass fill the darkness with the music.
Shiroe’s powerful voice hypnotises the listener’s ears with her chants, shouting, and gruff vocal work, which evoke a hateful attitude—yet she is beautiful and full of emotions, while Shiroe‘s lyrics are dreamlike, a mix of English and intimate imaginary language, disconnected from the so-called real world. Roméo’s drums are a symphony of sound — tones, beats, tempos, shrikes, and fills all come together to create a dynamic and varied composition.
Melt beckons the listener to journey through unexplored and unsettling aural landscapes. The mesmerising vocals and alluring guitar chords instantly captivate the listener, creating a hypnotic and enchanting effect. As the music progresses, the aggressive vocals and melodious melodies transport the listener into a world of obscurity, where the bounds of imagination are stretched to their limits.
The album comes to an end with the last song, Cypher. We want to give a shoutout to Melt for letting us review their self-titled album. Now, we’re going to wrap it up by talking about the final three sins and concluding the review.
The last Three Sins
Let’s discuss the last three sins, our thoughts on Melt and their Melt album.
The Fifth Sin, The Memorabilia: Is that for us, Melt is the fruit of the art, that plays a rock anchored in the power of metal, inspired by the tenderness and melancholy of the soul and the feeling. Each track is crafted with such precision that it takes the listener on a thrilling and entertaining journey from the beginning to the end.
It’s a deliciously dark and intense experience that is hard to forget
The Sixth Sin, The Artwork:
The artwork shows a dark shadow walking through a tunnel, giving the impression of entering a world of a dark, imaginary, mysterious, nightmarish realm.
The Seventh Sin, Disrelish:
Nothing to disrelish within the musical spectrum of Melt, and their album Melt.
This concludes the Melt, Melt review.
Track-Listing:
- Opikanoba
- Stigmata
- ShiroKuroMelt
- Thorn
- Kitane
- Reine
- Blast
- Cypher
Melt is:
- Olivier – guitars, composition
- Jux – bass
- Roméo – drums
- Charlotte – vox
- the name of the band was chosen one night in a squat echoing the film Blade Runner: “All these moments will be lost in oblivion like tears in the rain,” all these moments, ours, this life; melt is melting in its end as in the sun. ↩︎
