do not be afraid was reviewed in this week's Edmonton Journal capsule music reviews!

With such a wordy album title, it's easy to be afraid of the results. There's no need to panic at the disco. While Veil Maker's prog-rock adventures are the sonic equivalent of a 16-word  title, the local virtuosos are like boy scouts - willing to take listeners by the hand and guide them through lush forests of chiming melodies and xylophones, tunnels of shifting time signatures and seas of stormy guitars, screams and thrashing drumes. Every song feels like a 10-hour journey, but you arrive feeling exhilarated, not exhausted. "I'm covered with mosquitoes, but beaming all the same," CJ Murdoch sings on Coral Landing. His vocals - often reminiscent of Maynard James Keenan fronting A Perfect Circle - are sensual and languid, but don't always sound like they're properly miked or mixed into the morass. That's really the only problem with Afraid.


4/5 stars

Edmonton kids, don't forget about the Sidetrack Cafe show this Tuesday!

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HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!


HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!

A Perfect Circle is a step up from tool. I actually like APC.  This is a nice review, I'm pleased.

Taxonomy of Veil Maker comparisons:

Tool < APC < Pelican < Mogwai < Oceansize < Aereogramme

I think the Aereogramme comparisons are actually the closest, even though we had never heard them we we recorded the EP.  Man I hate tool.

everything on muchmusic < fallout boy < billy talent < Sam Roberts < At-the-Drive-in

oh yeah, if we extended the comparisons beyond print reviews, our taxonomy would be even better.  when i have access to my notes, perhaps i will expand it!

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Are you kidding me?  Fallout Boy is WAY ahead of Billy Talent and Sam Roberts!

hahahhaahhaahaha

They all suck.

it's not an evaluation of which band is better than another, but rather which comparisons are closer to veil maker.

for instance, aereogramme is clearly a worse band than mogwai, but they do sound more like veil maker on a comparative basis.

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I understood the flow chart.  That was my point.  But I was being a goofball, so it doesn't matter.

wtf fibbas

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butterflies and kittens and maynard james keenan

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It's about freakin' time they reviewed it!


PS. Greetings from the hotel comp in Thunder Bay!

MaraudingJ wrote:

I'll shrug most things off, but this has got to stop.

lol

my mom was right about sticks and stones

p.s. u win da cyba batl, i misred u

unicornpower wrote:

PS. Greetings from the hotel comp in Thunder Bay!

word! leslie is touring canada!

The Touring Leslie Show.  That would rule.

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I read that as the "Tourette's" Leslie show.

TWITCH ON, SISTA!

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TWIN TOWERSSSSSSSSS TWIIINNNN TOWWEERRRS!!!!!!!!!!!!

hahaha I'm now in Sudbury, chaunces, and I have comandeered this thread!

Sudbury is a yucky place.

Of course it's yucky, it's called sudbury, how can't it be? They buried all the suds.

i thought the show last night would have been better if the vocals were mic'd properly.

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good review, and we were tied for highest reviewed on the page :-p

aaaaand, we're officially better than jurassic 5!