The Armed are a contemporary band with fashionable concepts. A lot in order that past being a rabble of hardcore smothering pop tendencies – significantly on the aptly named, 2021 launch ULTRAPOP – they’re additionally a morphing manifestation of anger, creativity, and refuting restrictions, with all of the switches that ignite these concepts cranked to eleven – all while additionally not strictly having any official members. Merely completely ambiguous with the essentially the most direct intention.
ULTRAPOP: Dwell At The Masonic is the sonic counterpart to the cinematic launch which occurred late final 12 months (which in itself is a marvel of Shyamalan-esque thriller and an embracing of the bands seemingly increasing cinematic universe masterminded by the bands protagonist, one Daniel Greene – half cult chief, half vocalist, who is aware of?!) However standing alone, the audio is price a nod on the advantage of the songs that, already housed on ULTRAPOP, discover new gravitas and impression past the recorded caged slaughter.
It permits every particle within the massive hadron collider that’s The Armed to breathe. Current in their very own second, and crushing collectively to make an impassable unit of sound, dropping not one of the albums impression – even with the addition of low slung orchestral strings. Recorded, The Armed are an abrasive sound, a purposeful one which challenges you to dig beneath the floor however stay the natural nature of their being comes into play. The harmonies of “An Iteration” come hanging by, whereas the darting guitars of “All Futures” pierce, nevertheless it’s the light hum of one thing extra at play that embodies proceedings.
Dwell At The Masonic is most notable for its improvement of one of the vital intriguing, beguiling and down proper fascinating bands at the moment lively. It poses extra questions than it solutions about their existence, whereas making certain to utterly wipe the board and leaving within the place of this intensive checklist simply the exceptional vitality {that a} group of individuals enjoying music in the identical approach and house can conjure.
Even the setting of the Detroit natives legendary Masonic Corridor (absolutely utilised through the walkthrough within the video accompaniment) performs into the thriller behind this outfit. Half cult, half hardcore band, all boundaries are pushed within the identify of one thing. It doesn’t matter what it’s, it is a journey that when you’re already on, you know the way particular it’s, and when you aren’t, you’re lacking out. Refract.
