A good Balance
Posted December 31, 2008
By Nathan,
It’s always encouraging to see a band like Deas Vail that started from a couple musicians playing songs for fun to two albums and the White Lights EP which gears up for their full length 2009 release. The interesting thing about the EP is that lead singer Wes Blaylock’s vocals often make or break the songs rather than the alternative rock.
Blaylock’s light vocals drive the soft alternative rock music, which can be sometimes be annoying especially in the case of “undercover” where the resemblance to House of Heroes is striking. The hooks add very little grounding to the very disjointed rock tune, and despite some good piano bits the original style is marred Wes Blaylock’s d incoherence. However some of the strangeness is wiped away in the album’s medium rock title track and while Blaylock’s vocals are still high and particularly aggressive they are more strategically to put the emphases the message.
The light rock music displayed in “last place” is charming thanks to the guitar and the soft vocals which add emotion to the song. The atmosphere of “from priests to thieves” is very light as it’s clear that this type of piano driven alternative light rock isn’t the type that should be blaring through the car stereo because the words ‘slightly’ and ‘upbeat’ can hardy apply. “Balance” is a very telling title of the fluid organic sound that starts lightly but becomes a more up tempo rock song.
Encouragement comes in “White lights” message which revolves around a girl who has risen past her pain (‘She's got white lights on her face/From the bad days/That she just can't erase/And her sad eyes are replaced/With the new life in a beautiful place’). The Bands reveals their faith in “Last place” which references Mark 9:35 (‘So go for the last place/Cause the last place will be the first/And let's change our stance/We'll stand taller now’) while “balance” says: ‘You are the balance/You are the fold/You are the sails that bring me home’.
Deas Vail’s music varies from artistic to disjointed, but the artists side wins even with the occasional strange music. Their lyrics can be odd as their music especially “undercover” which has uses some uncomforting lines amidst the cryptic whole. But it’s the exception of the five song EP rather than the norm which means the White Lights EP sets up safely for their third project.
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