Tera Melos - Last Smile for Jaron

There were days when I thought Depeche Mode was alternative band. There were days when I thought The White Stripes did the best thing that ever happened to rock music. And until yesterday, there were days I thought Battles play weird songs. Today, I stand corrected. Let me introduce a team of absolute freaks, drug-addict psychoes and digital abusers - Tera Melos.

Imagine yourself some kind of utterly baroque sound, which is incorporating electronic beeps simulating avant-jazz effects mixed with punk-rock dynamics starting and stopping completely against the rules of composing with all this things swimming in tons of multiplied-vocals sauce. I know the sentence above has very little meaning, excuse me. But I was just trying to mimic Tera Melos' style during writeup. OK, now I stop; it's beyond me.

This, however, may be the end of this band's style as we knew it before. After recent drummer switch, they are about to release a new album. This year's fall will be John Clardy's moment of rise (or fall :-). The expectations are high; I hope he possesses sick agility and endurance, because that's what you need when you're playing with these madmans.

Tera Melos - Last Smile for Jaron



Artist: Tera Melos
Album: Complex Full of Phantoms (2007)
Track: Last Smile for Jaron
Track Number: 3
Track Length: 6:29
Labels: Sargent House (USA)