Song Review /Prog Rock : Kilravock’s ‘Incompatibility/ Working Class Hero’
If you want to drift into a nihilist prog rock program filled with absurdities, bizarre perspectives and insurgent ideas, well, Kilravok is the artist for you. His riff-filled, bass-washed, sky-falling sonics are all-consuming. Think of it as a swirling vault, a cauldron, full of bubbling layers, frothing with dark spells, and sparkling with energy. This is his debut release, a double single ‘Incompatibility/ Working Class Hero’.
While ‘Incompatibility’ is a lofty prog rock machination that works its way into doom rock, post metal, and heavy rock sludges, ‘Working Class Hero’, is comparatively a lighter track; in texture, in tone, and in mood. The two songs form an interesting contrast, showcasing not only the range of the artist but the variety of his ideas.
‘Incompatibility’ explores the depravity and depressions that are caused by asymmetric relationships. The soundscape, designed with frictions and a dramatic culmination of them, conceptualizes the drain in a person’s energy and personhood. It is emo, dark, driving, and destructive. ‘Working Class Hero’ is a glinting acoustic folk rock song. A melancholic flow that gets into the realities of the theme with a contemplative dimension. Listen Now!
Kilravock is the solo project of Omaha area producer Steven W. Smith, of The Alliterates, Lucid Fugue, Megaton, and Valley of Shadows.
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