An Autumn For Crippled Children - Try Not to Destroy Everything You Love
My taste in music keeps getting weirder and weirder. For a
while, it kept getting more deppresive each passing day, and without knowing I
found myself listening to shoe-, metalgaze, post metal etc. (damn you Alcest,
it’s all your fault). The album I’ve been listening to for past two weeks was
the newest record of An Autumn for
Crippled Children (AAfCC from here on). Although in my opinion the French
are the dominant ones on the deppresive side of music, Try Not to Destroy
Everything You Love by the Dutch band is one of the best albums this year.
Before moving forward let me say that I met AAfCC with this
album and this is the only one that I listened to. Aside from the wall of sound
created with overdistorted guitar that is default in shoegaze, the first thing
you notice are the synths and electronics. What?! Synths and electronics?! I’ve
heard AAfCC was a black metal band?! Yes, this is where term “experimental”
behind their genre comes to play. Electronics are used pretty well throughout
the album. Bass is another instrument that shines. It is one of the main weapons
of the parts that catch your ear.
Vocals are left in the background in that wall of sound,
which puts the listener to a distance and creates of feeling of being “unreachable”.
It is as if you would want to reach out and pull someone out of the water but
they are already out of your reach but not your eyesight.
I can’t go on without mentioning the general atmosphere I
get from the album. It is pretty deppresing, yes, but there is always some bits
that imply that not all hope is lost.
In all the darkness that surrounds the songs, there are glimmers of light every
now and then. Starting with the album cover and album title, rather than being
purely depressing it bears signs of bitter happiness, clouded by the general
pessimist perspective.
In conclusion, I found Try Not to Destroy Everything You
Love to be a great album. It will definitely put a song or two to my soundtrack for
the coming winter. Now, if you let me, I will go and listen to Only the Ocean Knows.
Favorite Tracks: The
Woods are On Fire, Try Not to Destroy Everything You Love, Sepia Mountains for
Her Lament
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