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Release Date
6 November 2006
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Length
9 tracks
"Loyal Eyes Betrayed the Mind starts off with ambient guitar noodling on Behind Curtains Closing before we are quickly awakened with an onslaught of pummeling riffage. These guitars continue to reign throughout the opening track, especially midway through where the tempo changes gears and the guitars are off to the races. The tension created by the guitars subsides towards the end and an ambient passage leads us directly into the second track, "Early Morning Ambulance", which relies heavily on ambiance and shows us early in the record that Gifts From Enola are more than just about heavy guitars. With that being said, the third track "City Lights Scraped the Sky" starts off, oh how do the kids these days put it, oh yeah "LOUD AS FUCK". "City Lights Scraped the Sky" is an absolute monster that destroys everything in its path. The track does slow down, though, intomelodic dueling guitars, but slowly re-emerges into a heavy riff-fest that repeats the face-melting process.The next four tracks display a very different side of Gifts From Enola. Rather than each track being elephantine instrumentals, each is a short song that incorporates everything from jazzy bass lines, to electronics, and ambiance along with their trademark guitar rock. What s so remarkable about these four songs is that though they sound perfectly fine on their own, they sound so much better when you play all four of them one after the other. The songs flow so well into one another that they sound more like one 16 minute song rather than four 4 minute ones. "With the Tides in Hindsight", the second track in these four, displays mastery of ambient electronics like no other heavy post-rock or post-metal band has done before and sounds more like something Hammock would do. The eighth track "Screaming at anything that Moved" brings us back to the monstrous instrumentals, which is a good thing because this track is arguably the strongest on the album. "Screaming at anything that Moved" incorporates all of Loyal Eyes Betrayed the Mind into one 8 minute song and is a fitting way to close out the album. The last track "Memoranda" is truly the icing on the cake. Starting off with a slow minimalist piano tune before erupting into a joyous wall ofguitars and symbols, "Memoranda" is the most emotionally riveting song on Loyal Eyes Betrayed the Mind and has you attached to the album and wanting more." - Decoy Music
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