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| Album Rating: A |
Light Black’s two-person studio repertoire with Paul Hundeby handling bass, drums and vocal duties, and Walter Kappler on guitar, has proven to be an effective framework for the Boulder, Colo. emo rockers. Desperately screamed vocals, poetic, profound lyricism and fluctuating rhythms synthesize as one on
Ex Wives, yielding impressive results that most four or five-piece groups fail to achieve. Even with such a dense array of instruments and sounds, the album’s guitar work still manages to shine through as its strongest feature. Through incessant, weaving guitar lines interspersed within a powerfully ambiguous post-rock atmosphere, Light Black prove that while many bands can noodle, some simply noodle harder than others. Although each aspect of
Ex Wives is executed with poise and precision, the result is an organic, naturally flowing album that plays much more like a unified experience rather than a collection of songs.
