To live in colour | the elegant chasers
Artist: The Elegant Chasers (Marios Loizou)
Reviewer: Dee
Song Style: 2024, alt, indie rock, stadium rock, guitar songs
The Elegant Chasers, which I initially read as the elephant chasers, but that’s another band, come in hot with the second cut off the upcoming release “TO LIVE IN COLOUR” (06-12-24). The audio pressure maintains a high-intensity buzz from the start. With this composition, that buzz echoes and delays in turn throughout, leaving the listener in an isolated chamber to contemplate life’s meaning. I think of S. Florida and listening to “Take Me Higher” but that’s another band, too. As the melody weaves itself through a steady, thumping percussion track, unique tonal rhythms and cadences emerge remniscent of Alice in Chains and early Creed. Here, the music starts to flex its muscle. Multi-layered guitar and straight up the middle percussion simulate a kind of nightclub ambience with the ins and the outs and ebbs and flows of a live audience and some serious bass tubs. This mix has a medium size arena rock feel that goes beyond what you might hear from some more popular and well-known indie-rock, guitar-song bands. This is much edgier than that.
Theatrical and with soundtrack qualities, the guitar break-outs while lost periodically in the melody (maybe it’s a less is more thing), are more than stock, boxed riffs. The extended solo midway is testament to that; providing a powerful bridge and set-up to the crunching, sometimes seering, denouement and “tune in next time for more” ending. Great contrast there. Sometimes the mixes don’t quite even out but that could be my bias for clearer vocals in my own mixes, which haven’t always been easy to come by.
We’ll be listening for more great tunes coming out from The Elegant Chasers as Marios Loizou and his musical alter egos sharpen the many talents he has laid bear for us to hear.
from the album To Live in Colour (2024) releasing 06-12-24
Source: Mail Request
Website: Bandcamp: To Live in Colour | The Elegant Chasers
