Athletics – Why Aren’t I Home
Written By: Ahti on November 13, 2010
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Instead of being overly calculated Athletics created a colorful display of modern rock performed with craftiness and passion. While the album “Why Aren’t I Home?” truly articulates the melodic aspect of the genre, which however is nothing special at all, the band managed to paint the record with different moods and filled it with intimate interludes and instrumental bridges and caps which are stunning and expressed with clarity. Songs are also well-written and narrowed down to the point, with the average length of only 3 or 4 minutes.“Why Aren’t I home?” was produced by Gregory Dunn from Moving Mountains, the influence both instrumentally and sound wise is captured throughout the record and if we want, we could draw some connection lines here and there. It seems that Moving Mountains has this cult-effect for the generation of post-rock rockers, but then again, I am a fan myself.
To describe the record lyrically, the colors paint the scene of hopelessness and lack of will, even to the point of death. Although I consider the album to be lyrically weak or rushed, it has some poetically minimal pieces which stand out of the bunch, such as “It’s Night, It’s Enough”and cute sounding “Lullaby”.But what’s cool thing about “Lullaby” is that music wise it sounds haunting and terrifying. Score: 7/10
