Crowfeeder – No Flowers
Released March 24th, 2017
Crowfeeder’s new full-length album, No Flowers, features their signature over-driven guitars, breakneck drums, and an assortment of screams and melodic vocals that nearly matches the intensity of their live shows. Derek Paul’s sludgy metal guitar riffs, play counterpoint to clean chords throughout, ably backed by drummer Adam Norton. The album features heterogeneous songwriting shifting influences within songs, but keeping a unified sound throughout. The layered vocals though mostly screamed have a strong sense of melody that couples nicely with the aggressive sounding riffs and just the right amount of groove. If there was one small touch to improve, No Flowers, it would be to bring the vocals up a touch in the mix. But even with that small criticism, No Flowers, is easy among the best albums reviewed here so far this year.
4.5 of 5 stars
