Cane Hill gave themselves away with their new album.
Two years after their last EP, Elijah Witt (vocals), James Barnett (guitar), Ryan Henriquez (bass), and Devin Clark (drums) announce the release of A Piece of Me I Never Let You Find on Out Of Line Music.
The band envelops us in misty tones with The Pain Ends When You Let Go, a rather mysterious introduction, but the jerky riffs soon strike on The Midnight Sun, a composition with modern aggressive tones, nuanced by a few much softer passages. The two worlds come together for some spellbinding choruses, but you can feel the violence dominating the track, just as on the explosive Ecstacy In Grief, which features a solid rhythm section and, above all, a devastating break before suddenly coming to a halt. I Always Knew That We Were Doomed offers a few soothing touches between two controlled conflagrations, and this hazy approach is also found on Fade, the following track, with marked Post-Hardcore influences that help to harmoniously pace the progression. The band follows with Drowning Therapy, where the atmosphere steadily flares up without forgetting its aerial elements, then the sound of roses in bloom temporizes with a very calm instrumental passage, finally disturbed by aggressive saturation. Quietude returns until Eye To Eye (Iris) takes over, reminding us of all the savagery the musicians can spread before bringing them back to steamy Electro influences on How Could You Lose and its soothing synthetic tones. The track holds its sweetness to the end, but the sound gets heavier again on Permanance In Sleep, letting the vocalist reveal an intense duality, particularly on his raw screams and the fearsome moshpart before the final. Finding Euphoria completes the energetic arsenal with its furious Prog/Djent touches with a hint of technicality, then the album comes to an end except for the digital version, which prolongs the experience with FADE Into Me, a more aggressive version of one of the previous tracks, giving us a heavier vision.
A Piece of Me I Never Let You Find is sure to delight Cane Hill fans. The album is very well paced, letting its modern sounds follow one another without necessarily sounding the same. It’s sure to be a hit on stage.
80/100