{"id":78598,"date":"2018-04-10T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=78598"},"modified":"2018-04-10T12:24:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T17:24:11","slug":"uplifting-non-metal-review-tengil-shouldhavebeens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/uplifting-non-metal-review-tengil-shouldhavebeens\/","title":{"rendered":"UPLIFTING NON-METAL REVIEW: Tengil &#8211; shouldhavebeens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Imagine if The Cure had a large part of their sound informed by black metal and post-black metal. I\u2019m not a huge fan of using the work of other groups to describe someone else\u2019s own unique creative output, but in this case I think the comparison is fair, and I also mean it as a huge compliment.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>shouldhavebeens <\/em>is the\u00a0sophomore full-length release from the Swedes in <strong>Tengil<\/strong>. The album conveys being swept up into everything, life just overwhelming someone as they come to terms how to deal with it all. Simultaneously there\u2019s excitement, and there\u2019s longing in seeming equal measure, with a very youthful spin to how these mixed-up emotions are conveyed. The record\u00a0opens with a very dense but bright and slightly poppy wall of sound, as \u201cI Dreamt I Was Old\u201d jumps right in with blurry floating synths and loops with a pounding blast beat in the drums underneath. It\u2019s a good twenty seconds before guitar even shows up. Instruments keep layering, and the intensity grows, tugging you by the hand. By the time the first song finished all I could say was, \u201cwow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a time where what\u2019s hot with the kids is post-black metal (not that I\u2019d call that a bad thing by any means), it\u2019s refreshing to see a take this fresh on the idea, a band truly doing whatever they want and setting their own sound, as opposed to following in the footsteps of bands who\u2019ve already made their mark like <strong>Deafheaven<\/strong> or <strong>Alcest<\/strong>. In a record full of outstanding material, \u201cIt\u2019s All For Springtime\u201d is the standout track of <em>shouldhavebeens<\/em>, and it\u2019s deservedly been made the single to showcase the album. Keeping with the theme of the album, it\u2019s bittersweet and melancholy, a lament for the impermanent nature of everything.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_98859\"  width=\"320\" height=\"240\"  data-origwidth=\"320\" data-origheight=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w_8ddgij4Yk?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What I admire about this album and this band is they\u2019ve created a truly heavy sound without resorting too much to the clich\u00e9s and tropes of \u201cheavy\u201d music, staying mostly on the brighter upper registers of their sound and playing to the strengths of vocalist Sakarias\u2019s higher tenor voice. And a damn good voice at that, with tons of emotion and power behind it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_78105\"  width=\"320\" height=\"240\"  data-origwidth=\"320\" data-origheight=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DdEjNXlEfH8?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>shouldhavebeens<\/em> is bright and celestial, but also incredibly bittersweet and melancholy. It\u2019s an album of nostalgia and longing, of standing between disparate moments, disparate states. I absolutely love this record, it\u2019s one of the most unique and well-crafted things I\u2019ve heard this year so far. I wish there were more material to this album, but I\u2019m glad I had the opportunity to listen to what they did have and I\u2019m looking forward to whatever the band does in the future.<\/p>\n<p><em>shouldhavebeens<\/em> is available April 13 through Prophecy Records. Pick it up <a href=\"http:\/\/en.prophecy.de\/artists\/tengil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/tengil.bandcamp.com\/album\/shouldhavebeens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine if The Cure had a large part of their sound informed by black metal and post-black metal. I\u2019m not a huge fan of using the work of other groups to describe someone else\u2019s own unique creative output, but in this case I think the comparison is fair, and I also mean it as a huge compliment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":78599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Post-black metal that eschews the well-trodden ground of its forebears, Tengil creates a refreshing and uplifting sound on their latest record","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[370,70],"tags":[12748],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/993663-Copy.jpg?fit=710%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}