Yurodivy – ‘Where The Dogs Will Never Sleep’.
Yurodivy – Strasbourg, France.
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You could argue that it’s hard to standout these days as contemporary Post-Hardcore band. The genre’s oh-so diverse history is what it is and those seminal bands and albums won’t likely ever be forgotten. So with that, it goes without saying bands looking to pursue such a progression of Punk music need to be fully committed. Enter Strasbourg‘s Yurodivy.
We’ve seen the band show their prowess via the insanely, well – insane Aphos which twisted, turned and convulsed it’s way round the genre back to Hardcore Punk, forward to Mathcore and then even as far as glimpsing elements of Post-Metal. It’s needless to say it grabbed and kept my attention mercilessly.
But that was 2017, this is 2018 and the band’s two-track recent release is very much attention grabbing.
‘Don’t Define Me As A Pessimist’ in it’s intro very much epitomises the very Hardcore rage that the Post-Hardcore trail-blazers wanted to offer and then express in more ways than the token classic drum beats and rhythms.
This first track is up-tempo, crunching and precise. Vocally the shrill semi-high-pitched screams compliment the layered strings and frantic drum beat by adding what feels like the same rage and sound only filtered though a human voice-box instead. You’ve made it past the accosting and aggressive two-minute mark of Post-Hardcore-Punk-Rock catharthis and the breakdown you are met with following such is nothing more, nothing less, better or worse than the maelstrom of relentless Mathcore that it is.
Lyrically speaking, well, let’s just say that it’s well written and that you will require the lyrics from bandcamp in front of you to fully immerse yourself.
‘Where The Dogs Will Never Sleep’ very much picks up where the band left off a few ear-splitting moments ago. Yurodivy are actually really very melodic, the vast majority of the time it is indeed very subtle but if it wasn’t present, they would lose a great deal of their appeal. This is where the second and final track stands stark and defiant.
Yurodivy are well aware of how complicated and dare I say convoluted they may seem at a glance but they don’t care, their whole mission is to draw you in and show you that it’s more than just visceral noise and they succeed. ‘Where The Dogs Will Never Sleep’ does very much this with it’s Hardcore/Mathcore charged intro and melodic leads segueing from prominence to crucial codependence and then back again.
‘Where The Dogs Will Never Sleep’ progressively loses it’s pace but not it’s intensity. By 1:10 it’s fallen on a quiet (within context) refrain, drawn-out into slow, cumbersome subtly melodically-edged breakdowns on the surface not as heavy as by know we know the band can be, but still eerily sombre, emotive and aggressive.
Yurodivy – What a band.
‘So much beauty and so much hatred
So many places built with dreams
Always been kept in the dark
Are you sure what side you’re on
You can’t defeat what you don’t know’
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