Review: Decembers Architects – “Apiary Ennui & Curiosas the Brew Shakes”

This hyperactive 12-track outing has its moments but making it from start to finish can feel like stuttering through conversation with someone on speed. Verses stop and start. Guitars mutter a bar or two before breaking into distorted roars. Time signatures surface, only to be brushed aside.

Songs like “Self Induced Priapism Opus” do their best to channel the breakneck intensity of the Locust but the group hits targets when it holds its aim for more than a few seconds, as on the early moments of the Rodan-influenced “A Hemingway Cat.” – Punk Planet, May/June 2007

About the author

Justin Vellucci is a staff writer for PopMatters, Spectrum Culture, and MusicTAP, a contributor to Pittsburgh Current, and a former staffer for Popdose, Punk Planet and Delusions of Adequacy. His music writing has appeared in national magazines such as American Songwriter, alt-pubs like The Brooklyn Rail, Pittsburgh CityPaper and San Diego CityBeat, blogs Swordfish, Punksburgh and Linoleum, and the Gannett magazine Jetty. He lives in Pittsburgh.

Comments

  1. I played in this band a few years back, named “a hemingway cat” after a love in my life, probably wrote the part you mentioned. i cant say i’ve ever listened to rodan or locust. funny how that stuff works out.
    cheers.

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