The champions of the Digitech Whammy pedal are back with a short, sweet, angular, polyrhythmic offering and we’re here for it.
Tiles Whispers Dreams seem to be as disparate as the crazed riffing and jazz inspired drums purveyed by Car Bomb, it’s only 11 minutes long but boy does it run the gamut of what has come to be recognised as their particular brand of abrasive, deconstructivist prog metal.
‘Blindsides’, hovers between bitcrushy, wonky rhythmic sections and soaring metalcore inspired choruses to deliver a blow by blow show of Car Bomb’s repertoire. You’re left gasping for breath by the end of the opener, after being dragged through a psychedelic kaleidoscope of blast beats, chugging Meshuggah esque mathematics and sparse yet heavy hitting leads. The clean section at the end of the track might be the most straightforward section of the whole record, dreamily leading you into the wanton destruction of ‘Paroxysm’.
“Car Bomb still manage to keep stretching their horizons to bring in new styles, new riffles for old ideas and keep marching forever forward into polyrhythmic oblivion.”
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It seems pertinent to cover all three of the tracks on show here as the EP is so short, the middle track is less than three minutes long, but it takes you by the hand repeatedly blasting you in the face with jaunty off kilter guitar work, once again bringing in those metalcore style vocals that provide a five second false sense of security before all hell breaks loose with a solo that Fredrik Thordendal would be proud to have written.
The title track actually has a straight beat, something that you may have easily believed was not achievable by the band, but it soon leads into a down tuned, bass filled, stomping goliath of a riff.
The Meshuggah influence is strewn across this whole EP, which isn’t anything new, but Car Bomb still manage to keep stretching their horizons to bring in new styles, new riffles for old ideas and keep marching forever forward into poly-rhythmic oblivion. The only bad thing about this new EP is the use of AI to produce the art for the videos to go along with the EP, as we know this is actively putting people out of work which is not cool. Whilst it’s not exactly deplorable, it is something worth noting and leaves a slightly sour taste after the overall solid music is done.
Tiles Whisper Dreams is out 1st of August and is self released.