Floating from Sweden has set 11 July as the release date for its upcoming full-length, Hesitating Lights. The album will come out via Transcending Obscurity Records; two tracks are already out.
Floating created a refreshing sound by blending death metal music with post-punk influences and adding some progressive flourishes along the way. It's not done in a jarring, haphazard way just for the sake of novelty but is meticulously put together with the influences that mix and interact with one another to enhance the appeal of the music. It's innovative but also very well done.
Floating is finding increasingly impressive ways to enrich death metal music with progressive and post-punk influences. While its previous release turned heads, this new one is far more refined, confident and accomplished. The primary elements have their place in the music, with none of them getting dislodged by the dominance of the other, and that's where the beauty lies. There is a subtlety, an emotional fragility that comes through in death metal music, which usually sounds too tough and overbearing for the most part. Moreover, these unconventional influences aren't copy-pasted or arbitrarily introduced to heavy music; they're carefully gauged, treated and woven together in parts where the well-trodden death metal music would come alive. As a result, listening to this album is an absolute delight. It's fascinating to see how the band has made sure that each song stands out and that no fixed pattern might just render their music predictable. Hesitating Lights is a thoughtfully composed, beautifully tempered album of bold, refreshing death metal music, which, in these times, is no mean feat. Link
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