Friday, May 1, 2009

Malignus Youth - Crisis


In 1990, a second EP was recorded live. This second EP, titled "Crisis", was released as a limited edition red and green vinyl, containing a 2 poster lyric sheet which has since become rare. "Crisis" was so-titled as it was released amid a tragic period in which personal friends within the Arizona Punk Rock Family were killed. The album was dedicated to them. The music contained themes of conflict, personal loss, fear of growing up, hopelessness and suicide.

Malignus Youth's musical tastes were maturing. "Crisis" marked a diversion from punk rock conventions by adopting compositional techniques more traditionally associated with classical music. Unique use of cadences in the guitar created vamps, or "riffs", each with a tension-release tension-release pattern. This created a dramatic element that merged into musical ideas, themes and phrases. Songs drifted away from 4/4 time to 3/4 and back, sometimes one after the other, even occurring simultaneously. Two-part harmonies, "call and response" singing patterns, as well as use of counterpoint-- a concept of 18th century Baroque music-- blended seamlessly with more traditional punk vocal styles.--wiki




Genre: Hardcore
Year: 1991





Tracklist:

01. Charlie
02. Who Could Say
03. When I Grow Up
04. Childhood Dreams
05. Push-Pull
06. No escape
07. Youth in Asia
08. S.U.E.




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