So it's another debut album review, this time coming from the depths of Connecticut in the form of djent/deathcore scaremongers Currents and their brilliant album The Place I Feel Safest.
First thing's first, I don't feel safe. I'm terrified. And this is exactly what it should be like. I should be shaking in my wee boots at the brutality of Currents tone. The album certainly has an appropriate level of dark about it, throwing down what have come to expect from any self-respecting deathcore album. The sense of power and evil in the song Withered should have any fanboy creaming his little pants. That said it is a lot more diverse than the genre its pencilled to would suggest.
There are smatterings of the more melodic influences of bands like Make Them Suffer and even has an almost Napoleon feel in parts of the song Forget Me. The choral elements of this song are added to elsewhere in the album also, balancing the ferocious nature of Brian Wille's vocal range in a beautiful mix of both the terrifying and tear jerkingly sorrowful.
Most of all this is a solid start for the new comers, showing the strength of the newly created Sharptone Records of which they are now representatives. I expect to see a lot more quality to come from this band, not simply because they can of course improve over time but I expect to more releases on the basis of their quality and I'm in no doubt their fanbase will grow quickly!
Continuing their rise with the sharpest of tones...
Djent-death debut: 6/10
Top picks: Withered, Forget Me, Silence.
The Place I Feel Safest was released June 16th 2017 via Sharptone Records:
sharptonerecords.co/currents-release-new-album-place-feel-safest/
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