Missing Chapter is an insane trip from blues ambiance to pornography

We are deep inside a dirty river in the woods. We see thrown out condoms all around and we will arrive almost where we started. Review of Skore’s debut LP.

 

 

It seems to be totally different as it is at first. It has a cover with nice old books on it and listening to the first song, you may think it will be airy, psychedelic blues-rock music. Especially when you hear the first voices of the singer, Tamás Brizda and everything seems to be smooth.

 

But it’s fake news, I have to say. If you are through with Skore‘s debut LP, Missing Chapter, you’ll understand what it’s all about. But you have to listen to the lyrics carefully to get the whole picture. A mess is surrounding us, and that’s the epicentre: the lyrics are moving together with the music, creating and organizing a complex, rough story. The Prologue at the beginning, and the Epilogue in the end shows that we are dealing with a concept album: Missing Chapter is a sinuous, psychedelic flow, but not without a direction.

 

 

Listening to the Prologue, you can feel that the vertical layering of the nerves, the progressive rock roots, plus a blues-latino-like solo on the top are creating a new kinda mood. This initial edgy romanticism goes melancholic at Lose Myself to You, and transform into a bit of a feeling-sorry-for-myself kind of vibe. But our hearts get hard as we become angry at the half of the song and somewhere here, we start wondering, where the hell are we: because the next song, Rebel Boy, is even pornographic. But it’s a dynamic self portray at the same time, it’s between singing and shouting.

 

The music is streaming to an incapable condition: the freedom of being alone. Restlessly High continues from that point with an exact reference to the last caption. The story blends the aspect of another person, not from ‘my own ego’, but don’t you think that Growing Up To You gives you any kinda classic happy ending. Dark Twin guides you back to the land of drugs, alcohol and claustrophobia. A place where you are alone in company, and you don’t have any choice just going out to the dust, searching for yourself. The song is a used condom, an emergency exit of boredom. But we can note that we are landing at least somewhere. It was a great decision to put this song to the end of the story, not just because of its vibe, but because if its complexity. Musically and both lyrically it gives a good image of the whole record.

 

So where are we now? We came from blues to HC, but somehow we stayed on one road. Then Epilogue brings us back to almost exactly the same location as Prologue started. It’s a real lockup situation. But even if we stay put in an ex-lex condition, Missing Chapter gives us a story as a whole.

 

We can feel the vibes of the popular metal of the 2000’s. That’s not obviously a bad thing, but I guess we’ve been already outgrown our Bullet For My Valentine’s T-shirts, so why should we mix great alcohol with soda-pop? But it’s definitely worth a listen anyway.

 

If you are crazy enough, and you wanna listen to them live, you can do it on 1st of December at Narancs Rock Cafe, Békéscsaba. They will perform with Full Vortex and The Project.

 

EDITED by Károly Gergely 

 

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Serfőző Krisztián