SYLOSIS - Dormant Heart

On Dormant Heart, Sylosis continue to play the long con on my aesthetic palette. Every time I convince myself they are unique and decidedly different, I give this disc another figurative spin, and gain a deeper meaning of the conversation between Snipes and Harrelson in White Men Can’t Jump –the one about listening to vs. hearing the music.

The tunes trot by like pedestrian show horses displaying a dearth of mirth, and nothing but their neighs -frequent like fossil findings- tear my attention towards the timid tracks.

Yes, Sylosis does paint outside the box, but the paint is drab, and the pictures lack all edge or any hint of interesting elements. A riff may reach out and grab you out of nowhere, but its grip is loose and fleeting, and the chords it contains quickly melt back into a pot of pure dispassion.
There’s nothing really to say about this album other than it will probably exit your rotation faster than it entered. [Nuclear Blast]
- Bogi Bjarnason

More Bogi over at Eddies in the Tide of Regret.

Sylosis - Leech (OFFICIAL VIDEO) from Nuclear Blast on Vimeo.