You can argue endlessly about the merit of AI and sampled and manipulated music until you are blue in the face, but it doesn’t change anything. The modern music maker just has a bigger sonic toolbox than ever from which to fashion music, and, after all, is it not the finished result that matters, not the journey the artist went on to make it? As the adage goes, “the proof of the pudding is in the eating,” and Hollow Lullaby, the new album from Vincent Projects, does taste rather delicious.
Blending traditional playing and studio technology, old-school analog and cutting-edge digital soundscaping, Vincent Projects releases have, as he has embraced more and more of what modern sonic technology has to offer, become more sonically sophisticated, bigger in scope, musically deeper, more devastatingly effective, and never was that more true than here.
Eight tracks that embrace everything from symphonic rock grace to nu-metal energies, muscular melody and groovesome contagion, angelic vocals and screaming crescendos.
The title track opens as a more considered piece, given the description I have just offered, but slowly builds through rising tension and heady atmospheres until roaring, gravel vocals rap and rip their way through, and searing guitars cut through the more delicate deliveries with which the song opens.
“Dead Inside But Still in Love” has an element of Evanescence about it, never a bad reference point, big, bold, beautiful and anthemic in a collection of similarly big, bold, beautiful and anthemic songs; “The Pulse Beneath The Grave” runs the sonic gamut between the delicate and the devastating and “What?” takes the power ballad and reinvents it for the modern, metal age.
As far as the listener is concerned, as I said in my opening remarks, music is about the result, and what Vincent Projects delivers here can stand by anything the symphonic metal or melodic hard rock world can offer right now.
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