Mur’s new melting comes to life.
Entitled Truth, this new EP still exploits the recipe created by Jay Moulin (vocals), Benjamin Gicquaud (guitar), Benjamin Leclere (guitar, Eyes Front North, Supernaute), Julien Granger (drums, ex-Glorior Belli, ex-Four Question Marks, ex-Darkness Dynamite), Thomas Zanghellini (bass) and Alexandre Michaan (keyboards).
If for you styles should not melt together, you will be highly surprised by the complementarity Mur created between a dissonant Post-Black and seizing Synthwave influences. The EP begins with Epiphany, a song with thick and disturbing Black Metal basis, surmounted by visceral howlings and Electro/Synthwave keyboards, creating an impressive contrast. The two styles are very opposed, but they play together, like on Suicide Summer, a jerky and aggressive track. Electronic sonorities have an important place into the dark oppression developed by the band, while the basis places heavy elements, like on the heady Inner Hole. The sound is crushing and howlings supported by backing vocals leave us a bitter taste in mouth, while dragging us into this chaotic spiral before dropping us on Such A Shame, a cover from the british Pop band Talk Talk. Even if it comes from a way too joyful universe, the song picks a lot into the Post-Metal universe in general to increase the song’s intensity before unleashing sharp Black Metal riffs. The EP ends with the long Truth, an instrumental composition that exploits all the band’s Synthwave/Electro basis. Soaring tones, darker parts, but a mesmerizing universe that is finally stained by pure oppression.
Mur has no limit anymore. Whether the band’s first album established a quite complementary basis of a style made by strong contrasts, Truth blows barriers up between the two genres while melting them with strength and inspiration.
85/100