Creating a fiercely evocative and tempestuous soundscape within the exploration of lucid dreaming and dream phenomena, UK instrumental band Telepathy unleash new album 12 Areas to dramatically incite senses, imagination, and emotions. The seven track album is an uncontrollably immersive enticement, a release which can seamlessly and skilfully move from seduction to brawling within the taking of a breath, all the time igniting intimate thoughts and feelings. The enthralling album charts the progression of an imposing dream and the levels of sleep states the mind experiences therein, dark shadows and at times torments within investigated but also the release casts suggestive provocation which can be translated to avenues within awaken states and emotional turmoil. The release is a breath-taking and at times demanding encounter which places Telepathy on a whole new plateau.
The band’s debut EP Fracture in 2011 alerted the metal world to the presence of the Colchester and Rewa hailing band, it’s unveiling of sludge and doom infused post metal sound drawing immediately eager attention. Their emergence was given greater potency by their live performances, which has seen the quartet play with the likes of Latitudes and Downfall of Gaia. The single Lucretius in 2012 again added extra fire to their increasing reputation but it is fair to say that the James Plotkin (Khanate, Old Man Gloom, Isis, Cave-In) mastered 12 Areas is a gripping and compelling big step forward in not only sound but stature. Infusing greater elements and essences of atmospheric and progressive metal into their instinctive sound, the album conveys a vaster landscape of technical and provocative sonic colour to their already thick and heavy canvas of sound. At times intensively debilitating and in others invigoratingly caring, the release sets a benchmark even they may find hard to surpass in the future.
{Hypnos} opens up the journey, casting a slow and uneasy fall into unconsciousness as the investigation by the album begins. From 
peaceful and elegant guitar designs courting a gentle coaxing, the track grows darker and more intimidating. Intensity brews its threat and unrest along the short piece, never thrusting its shadows over the senses but certainly making them aware of an impending emotional maelstrom which Saccade soon delivers. The track erupts with a horde like attack of riffs but soon tempers their charge enough to entangle the urgency in a web of incendiary guitar enterprise and eventful endeavour. The swiping sinewed rhythms cage off any escape whilst the bass brings a rapacious intent which only darkens the climactic scenery of the song further, but it is the twisting guitar narrative and evolving sonic antagonism which sends the imagination into a spiral of adventure and reflection.
The intrusive expression and almost erosive sonic palette of the song evolves further with the following Cystine Knot, its poetic melodies and predatory challenge a fuse to a conflict of light and dark, both carried on a flume of creative and technically gripping imagination. The heavy merciless element of Telepathy’s sound stakes its place within the tempestuous encounter, making intensive proposals which ensures that even in the radiant and absorbing melodic passages of safety and respite s lingering resonances are there watching on from distant shadows. As across the release, the individual skills and poise of the band is engrossing whilst their united furnace of intent and craft lays irresistible seeds which bloom to intensified raptures.
Sleepwalker slips into view on its own emotive ambience, the initial coaxing a potent enticement but one flirted with by twisted sonics and reserved menace. The moment to voice their toxicity is soon upon the senses though as the track spreads it’s captivatingly welcoming and equally threatening arms around the body; every thought, emotion, and spark of the psyche doused in mesmeric venom of sound and ideation. Though the piece ebbs and flows in its pressure on the senses, the track is a constant surge of striking and intrusive peaks which permanently spark like torrential crescendos.
The next up Breath-Motion provides another immense pinnacle on its way to taking best track honours. From its opening peace and ambient seducing, the track carves out a furrow of raging intensity and predacious ravaging within a spellbinding melodic and sonic web which cradles and wonderfully tempers the corrosive beauty of the track. Once it has full attention and control of its recipient’s mental and emotional state, the track begins stalking and chewing on its victim with insatiable invention and rigour, all the time creating a mouthwatering slavery of technical mastery and explosive passion. The track is sensational providing new torments and discoveries with every exploit within its cauldron of sound and ingenuity, something you can apply to all songs to be fair.
The brief but rabid distressed suffocation of {Deluge} paves the way for the closing creative swamp of To Kiss The Ocean’s Floor which expressively and commandingly gives the album a tumultuous finale in sound and overwhelming anxiety. It is a simply a tremendous end to an outstanding proposition. There are moments across the album where thoughts find loose comparisons to the likes of The Ocean, Abysse, and Pelican but Telepathy definitely sculpts something decisively unique to them, a proposition on the evidence of 12 Areas which will see the band become a very sizeable incitement ahead.
12 Areas is available on CD and transparent green/blue 12″ Vinyl via Devouter Records and as a Buy Now Name Your Price download @ http://telepathyband.bandcamp.com
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9/10
RingMaster 06/05/2014
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