Album Type : Full length
Date Released : 8/11/2013
Label : Economy Of Motion Records
Vessel, album track listing :
1. Fear the
Followers
2. Buried in the City
3. Dogs
4. End of Your Life, Pt. 1
5. End of Your Life, Pt. 2
6. Fly by Night, Pt. 2
7. Fly by Daylight
8. Glorious Dead
2. Buried in the City
3. Dogs
4. End of Your Life, Pt. 1
5. End of Your Life, Pt. 2
6. Fly by Night, Pt. 2
7. Fly by Daylight
8. Glorious Dead
The Band :
Jeff Wojtysia |
Guitar, Vocals
Ed Nudd | Guitar, Vocals
Chase Bentley | Guitar
Tim Baldwin | Bass
Rebekah Brown | Keys, Vocals
Jordan Schultz | Drums
Ed Nudd | Guitar, Vocals
Chase Bentley | Guitar
Tim Baldwin | Bass
Rebekah Brown | Keys, Vocals
Jordan Schultz | Drums
Review :
Cokegoat. Like
some crazed farmyard exhibition, these noisemakers from Chicago
Opener ‘Fear the Followers’ spits out pure hardcore
vocal filth at you, with the guitars sawing away like you’re the next tree in
line to be violently felled. As soon as
they reach a peak of pace and punch, things take a turn for the darker, the
soundscape suddenly filled to the brim with slow, doomy heaviness, the drums
hammering down like the relentless tides on a coastline. If you want to start off your album with a
twist, this is the way to do it.
What really interested me about ‘Vessel’ is the
pseudo-prog pieces slap bang in the middle of the album. ‘End of Your Life’ parts 1 and 2 play out
like a particularly violent Metallica epic of yore, coupled with some really
destructive scream vocals from Rebekah Brown, Ed Nudd and Jeff
Wojtysiak. These three really do make
vocal anarchy an art form. Taken
individually, these two tracks are righteous and devilish; taken as a whole
entity, it becomes a much deeper, more menacing, more doom-dealing. In short, ‘End of Your Life’ needs its
sinister message to be heard by the masses.
My
personal favourite from ‘Vessel’ has to be closer ‘Glorious Dead’. From its Gregorian chant-esque intro, it
pounds out some of the darkest noise this side of Hell. The intricate riffery made by guitar-abusers
Chase Bentley, Ed Nudd, Jeff Wojtysiak and bass-punisher Tim Baldwin sounds
like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse decided to quit waiting for the End
Times and instead opted to start a band and kill the world that way. ‘Glorious Dead’ is a testament to the power
of loud: accentuated by Jordan Schultz’s magnificent drumming, and made
terrifying by the noise-making abilities of Rebekah Brown.
‘Vessel’ is an album of distorted chaos, and is
brilliant because of it. Don’t believe
me? Check out ‘Buried in the City’ and
get back to me on that. Cokegoat are
chaotic, angry, brilliant, and bewitching.
They really are an animal worth keeping your eye on.
Words by : Chris Markwell
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