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… 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.
The 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.
