Frameworks - Smother (Deathwish Inc.) 2016
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Having reviewed the Time Spent EP earlier in the year, I was keen to hear the evolution of Frameworks into their new album – and I am pleased that Smother has delivered exactly as I had hoped it would. A deeply angry vocal, spitting lyrics in bursts of zealous rage over well oiled, beautifully crafted rock. Pacey, musical and full of heart. Smother is a burst of adrenaline into a scene devoid of character and colour. Opener “Fear Of Missing Out” sets pace and the album delivers track after track of furious noise. “Purge” changes pace but loses none of the viscera, and closing track “New Narcissistic American Dream” drags you screaming into a new horizon. The landscape remade by a band with idea, passion and drive to get the job done. Blistering stuff.