The pacing of the album is also flawless, no song feels out of place and the heavy tracks are dispersed properly throughout, not compressed into one half. It grabs your attention and holds it until the very end, each song bringing something special and unique to the table.
Their third album truly is the centrepiece of their career and an example of all the things the band does well, from the ruthless bludgeoning of tracks like “Get Some” and “Another Know It All”, to the darker slithering undertones of singles “Vitamin R” and “The Clincher” that groove deeply. And while that album could make a hard case for Chevelle’s best ever, their 2004 hit This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In) firmly stands in its way as a staple of the hard rock genre in the new millennium. And while he obviously enjoys an album with more of a cohesive concept built around a few standout tracks with more passive ones, I crave music that grabs my attention and holds it constantly.īy the time I found Chevelle, it was 2007 and Vena Sera had already been released.
That’s what kind of music Chevelle plays, strings of hit after hit after hit of crushing hard rock. And you know what the funny part about it is? He’s absolutely right, he nailed it in fact. He looked at me and said “every song sounds like a single”. Confused and angered, I asked him what he didn’t like about them. I remember when I tried to make my old university roommate listen to them, cranking old Chevelle hits like “I Get It” and “The Red” through his speakers in a vain attempt to elicit a response out of him.
It didn’t make sense to me yet that music was a subjective art and that what sounded flawless to me could actually be genuinely hated by another. Review Summary: An album to grow up with.Īs an excitable young teenager, when I first happened upon a band I thoroughly enjoyed, I tried to force-feed them down the throats of anyone who was willing to listen.