By: Daniela Patrizi
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Released on May 7, 2015 via Bandcamp
With their new EP titled 13.10.16, Red Forest bring a well balanced mix of post rock and post metal, with elements of atmospheric electro-rock and somewhere dark ambient sound that intertwine with lighter moments. Red Forest are an instrumental post-rock/metal quartet from Caen, France, composed by Alan, Tony, Rudy and Olivier and 13.10.16 is their new EP following their debut S/T EP Red Forest through which they made their name in the post rock music scene.
As soon as you’ll start listening to 13.10.16 you’ll notice that they are very good in their execution and the whole EP is an easy and engaging listening.
At the first listening it seems that 13.10.16 is something you’ve heard several times, by several different bands. True, but if you focus on how the blend of sounds evolves song by song you’ll immediately have to admit that this album is great and that the band manage to embrace the style of their favorite bands and to go far away from them creating a sound that has its own and unique character.
The four tracks of 13.10.16, together, are a bit more than twenty minutes-long song, continuously shifting, reprising and falling back into itself.
The journey through 13.10.16 starts with ‘Raha’ that’s a nice incipit for the album. With its about 8 minutes, apart from being the the longest track of the record, it sets the mood of the whole composition. It starts with a classic post rock sounds and also its structure replicates the well known formula of the long intro before exploding in a wall of sound that is the peak of the composition. What makes this track brilliant is the perfectly executed alternation between heavy and weightless moments towards the end of it.
I listened to ‘Dernier Souffle’ several times and there’s no better way to describe it as a consistent and well-played experimental rock. Floating between post-rock and post-metal territories, ‘Dernier Souffle’ is where the French quartet show better their ability to merge different sounds together creating something really unique. The beginning is great but is something we have already heard but after one minute everything changes and this song, with its incredible build up and the vocals that give depth and rhythm to the composition, is just perfect.
Even in the last two tracks, ‘Vésuve’ and ‘If I was in L.A.’, that together are approximately eleven minutes of breathtaking rhythm, 13.10.16 never loses focus: it progresses perfectly till its end, building energy within each song and steadily gaining incredible power, especially in those moments with the band in full-force.
13.10.16 is seriously good..i just would like to know the meaning of its title.
