Division Day – Visitation Review
Division Day, a band out of Los Angeles and are a very talented band. I bought Beartrap Island and really enjoyed their covers. Even though I purchased Division Day’s last album, I gave a very mild review as I wasn’t really feeling a lot of the album.
Sometimes, all the talent in the world doesn’t equate to the best album. The truth of the matter is that Division Day could go many ways with their talents especially being backed by a strong singer in Rohner Segnitz. The band’s problem in my own personal opinion is that the band lacks consistency on an album. It’s really all over the place and while you can keep calling the band promising, it is their 3rd full release. How long do you wait until a band truly finds its’ sound? (not be cliché)
Visitation, released on August 18th is at least a better album then Beartrap Island and the band does show off more talents then previously but again, it’s held back by the band not really having a truly definable sound. The album opens up to Reservoir, a great sub-3 minute track. It shows off great vocals and a high tempo pace. The band could work well in either pace but it’s just hard to get comfortable and I guess with albums I expect to have some cohesion.
A good example would be the uses of Azalean, Devil Light and Planchette which are two softer, slower tracks that wedge in between Surrender for a short return back to frenzied tempos. At this point, it kind of goes downhill on the consistency factor. I love the title track but it just feels so out of place in the latter half of the album in between slower songs. It’s roughly half and half between tempos and the difference between them seems so apparent that the band should just choose one of the other or put them on separate albums… Even then the band employed quicker paced songs to start then just put on the brakes for the next half and then started switching back and forth.
Otherwise you get a false sense of mediocrity from the band that’s a shame on Division Day’s part because you get a sense you WANT to like their album but just can’t.
Rating: 3.75 out of 5
Almost a default rating. Each song is pretty good, it’s just not a great album and while that’s nitpicking – it makes a big difference for me. I can’t really sit down and listen to the album for a great length of time. At the same time I feel guilty because this band is pretty good…
Reservoir by Division Day
Visitation by Division Day
Azalean by Division Day
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