Cargo Records

One More For All Time + The Fall Of Math

Buy these together, you get them cheaper.

REVIEW OF "ONE MORE FOR ALL TIME" - DROWNED IN SOUND 9/10

"Let's say that you're a mythical bird-like creature, a phoenix perhaps, crashing through mist and watching as the madness of natural disasters and man-made suffering plays out below. Compelled by this drama beneath, you begin to rubberneck and take a full interest in what's going on. Forgetting to flap your wings, you begin falling, out of control, relentlessly battered by the waves of your own fear. Then, just as it seems like your experience can't become anymore intense and your death seems certain, you're whisked off by a cloud to another echelon of bliss. You decide to that the best use of your time would be to document everything that has just happened. This is the result, your memoir, as interpreted by 65daysofstatic and this is the most vital, enthralling and unrelenting record of 2005.

The band's seemingly endless crusade to invent their own genre continues on this second full-length effort One Time for All Time. Written in-between their health-defying touring schedules, 65dos have produced a dark, brooding attack on the senses, whilst reaching plains of beauty normally reserved for the likes of Explosions in the Sky and their counterparts.

As the album writhes and gathers pace with opener 'Drive Through Ghosts to Get Here', the true colours of what lies ahead are gradually unveiled. Only when we reach second track 'Await Rescue' is 65days' progression accountable. The sheer intensity of the band's musical and technical prowess is projected for the world to revel in, cascading every part of their electronic orchestra around your ears and constructing immense soundscapes that defy standards or chart-humping ideals. It's impossible not to be buried under the crushing guitars and precise drumming that hold every part of your being and twist your insides until suffocation is imminent.

This is also however where the only minor criticism arises, whereas 65daysofstatic's previous LP The Fall of Math gave the listener time to absorb and reflect upon the majestic aural assault they'd just experienced via it's One Time for All Time refuses to afford such luxuries, save the the select piano-led introduction (closer 'Radio Protector' is a perfect example). The band entered the studio to record an EP and left with a nine-track full-length laced with life affirming noise-driven journies that for the first time truly opens up the soul of 65days and challenges all to dive inside. If you've ever been even slightly intrigued by things you've read, now is the time to take the plunge and listen. Penultimate track '65 Doesn't Understand You' is the most all-encompassing, joyous piece the band have ever produced and with the overall sound now so well-honed and directly pitched, seduction is inevitable."

REVIEW OF "FALL OF MATH" IN PLAYLOUDER

"Most bands form and then make a conscious choice to imitate, plagiarise and become a pastiche of their idols. The music buying public love to be reminded of the good times; the old times; the familiar. It's the reason we've had The Beatles, The Clash and The Stooges clones plague our minds, radio, newspapers, TV, and our souls for the past twenty-five years. It's the reason guitar based music has driven itself into a rut; become stale, bland, tired and overblown. Time for an overhaul. But that's most bands, and it's clear that 65 Days of Static have no intention of being some retro-fuck entity. Nestling themselves in a scene loosely called math-rock or post-rock, they appear to have broken the golden alt-rock rule of not using computers, samplers, electronics etc (it's not real music you know). Instead of sounding like some scrappy, mix-genre soundclash, 65 Days of Static take your pre-conceptions and smash them into a million pieces.

'Retreat! Retreat!' swoops in with a glorious, spine tingling glockenspiel intro, which gives way to a riff that is so wide, so heavy, so burnt that it hurts; it's heart wrenching stuff. 'The Cat Is a Landmine' weaves in and out like Venetian Snares vs a monged Godspeed! You Black Emperor. 'Aren't We All Running' uses a moribund prog-rock piano intro and calmly sits back and lets the guitars and drums (the drummer clearly having eight arms on this track) walk in and bludgeon you with reckless abandon. It is pure passion, and it's clear that 'The Fall of Math' was created to worship the beauty of music. Radiohead took three albums to become this adventurous and IDM is still too afraid to include live instruments on this level; when the Mercury Music Prize comes around the judges won't go anywhere near this.

Go home, take your play safe indie-punk records and burn them. 65 Days of Static have their heads in 2007 and everyone else is thirty years behind"
Magnificent."

Simon Smerdon.