LP Review: Totally Unicorn - Sorry (2019) (English)

Let's have a smoke and talk about Totally Unicorn's new LP "Sorry". Be aware that this is no light tobacco. The quartet has created around 35 minutes of intense attacks, staccato beats, wild varieties in rhythm and tune, and a heavy ton of savage sound. This is what Heavy Math Rock or Math Metalcore should sound like.

The burnt down cigarettes on the cover give you a nice impression of what the singer's voice sounds like. The strained screams and shouts easily jump across the heavy soundscape of pure and heavy madness. In several breaks the vocals turn into a strongly announcing or commenting manner, and when singing intros as in "A Song for the Dead Shits" there is this weeping but massive mixture of chanting and shouting which is just awesome. In general Drew's vocals are loud, intense, and thrilling.

Music-wise Totally Unicorn on "Sorry" present themselves as professionals in heavy and intelligent music. Straight-up Hard Rock or Thrash Metal parts demise to syncopic, shifted or just weird passages; but still every note, every hit, and every single quantum fits. In one moment Totally Unicorn dance across a wide floor, seconds later their music hits you like a giant massive wall of controlled noise. Scratchy melodic riffs turn into crazy Jazz parts, and in between of all this beautiful madness suddenly there's a break that makes you stomp or punch the floor out of pure joy about this chequered awesomeness.

Totally Unicorn's newest work "Sorry" is a melodic, musically intelligent, heavy, and massively intense album for an audience that is ready for changes in metre. The jazziest Hardcore or Metal, the roughest Math Rock or Jazz I have heard in a long time. The second long player of the band from New South Wales makes a perfect relief from stress, aggression or negativity. Also it is fun listening to this loud and elaborate output. I'd call it Party-Mathcore.

Let's have another smoke and sum up. Totally Unicorn produced another brachially massive soundtrack for a smart moshpit.