Aristic – Tig/Tala
Release Date: 28th October 2022
Label: Self Released
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Genre: Metalcore, Prog-Metal.
FFO: Traitors Among Us, Aether Wave, Embla North.
Review By: Ryan Payne
From Gothenburg, Sweden, we have solo-project Aristic with his debut album “Tig/Tala”. The album features a list of guest vocalists from around the world, flexing their talent over the music Aristic has composed.
While listening through this record, it is very clear that the mixing on the record isn’t the most professional. Vocals overpowering everything else, and not one of the songs had the same level of volume as the last. Musically, it is very well written, but recorded at a fairly amateur level. Having to endure the unmixed programmed drums and the very cut up guitar almost makes it feels like this album was recorded by robots. The technicality of the playing is definitely to be admired and some of the ideas are very good, but the execution has unfortunately let this down. “Tig/Tala” also has a few instrumental tracks throughout the album to allow Aristic to show off his writing and playing ability. The songs are nice fillers to the album and without the overpowering vocals, are probably some of the more enjoyable tracks to listen to.
The vocalists on the record are quite clearly skilled at what they do and put some hard work into getting their sections recorded for this record. After listening to a few of the tracks, you do start to wonder why there are so many. I feel if the vocalists were from more established bands that would get people’s heads turning, it would make more sense to have more than one. But when you have several tracks of different vocalists doing the exact same thing, you do wonder why Aristic didn’t just stick with the one to go through the whole record.
Overall, the album works as a nice attempt of when you decide to do it yourself, but if you’re trying to make it into the music industry, your content is your image and this will not be turning any major heads. With a bit of refining and hard work, Aristic’s next release could really be something special, but for now, this album hasn’t hit the mark as intended. 
(2 / 5)
