It is not easy to describe the music of ALLOCHIRIA. Difficult disharmony and leaden rhythms create threatening moods, while relaxed restraint and beautiful melodic arcs are responsible for the harmonic aspect. Humming vocals throb over floating melodies and the change between doomed sequences and playful Post Metal provides for gently oscillating dynamics.
This moody music avoids linear arrangements or catchy choruses and animates to drift away, to falling with a dangling soul. Sometimes the exciting composition of the songs reminds us of Anathema, the subtle use of sound plays also is similar to the British sound magicians. Extensive instrumental passages characterize the extended pieces on this album, which draw strength and energy from imperceptible increases. Also the dark growls at the end of Cracking Fractals fit perfectly to the abyssing atmosphere. Partly trippy and light-footed, then again slow and cumbersome, ALLOCHIRIA achieve a certain suction effect, which is amplified and expanded by the revolving guitar walls. In the first place, this plan succeeds with the intensely sung piece Lifespotting, which provides interesting phrasing. Quiet interludes and fierce chords fight a contrasting duel during Counting Fives. The final monster of Denouement rolls out all the characteristics to the point of excess: restrained percussions, floating guitar motifs, more aggressive interludes, and vicious vocals build wide tension curves, only the unspectacular ending is a bit too long.
ALLOCHIRIA plays off the standard and the musicians offer by no means well-known and easy-to-see structures. Rather, the listener is taken along on a vigorous voyage that lives from the ups and downs of intensity, from very soft and gentle to agitated but never blind aggression. Listen, relax and fall into infinity...