Human
Factor is a mostly instrumental four piece band for Russia. Longyear starts
things off with a sort of post rock vibe with a main repeated melodic guitar
line, which morphs into the lead as the bass and drums keep the pace in the
middle. The keyboards sort of float around the sound but later takes the lead
in complimenting the guitar lines nicely and there is some singing as well. A
3mins the track becomes much heavier and intense. ALF is a super cool track
with some freaky sampled voices and cool Ozric like synths and some intense
parts. Very cool song. 1816 has a sort of new age like keyboard that I don’t like
much but the bass and drums are killer on this track and later a more intense
guitar part kicks in. Later there is some excellent synth playing as the new
age stuff is dropped. Lake of Solitude slows things down a bit with floating
spacey vibe to it. There is a nice interplay between the guitar (who rarely
solos) and synth, which is the lead solo instrument in this band. Some similar
synths and arppegiated synths appear in this track as others. Nice e-bow guitar
work at the end of the track. Touch of Chixculub is probably the track with
heaviest guitar on the record. All the tracks so far are mid paced. Huge melodic thread runs thorough this one
which counters the heavy guitar riff. A bit of piano on this one. Alarm #1202
starts with some layers of synths before the bass and drums kick in and it
slowly grows. This track features some more interesting guitar, one delay and
one played quite fast, an almost like acoustic but not quite (or is the
synth?). The end is really hard rocking. Red Shift brings things down a bit
with some samples and keyboards before the band joins in. Again, the synths are
the main solo instrument. Nuba Vetera Promesas Pluvon features David Paulley on
voice and closes out this album and features some piano once again.
This band just has an excellent vibe and
good contrasts between dark and light moods, heavy and less heavy without
letting it get too commercial in sound.
Quite an enjoyable and excellent album.
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