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"Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It " is the fifth studio album by English experimental band Rolo Tomassi. The album was released on March 2, 2018 on the Holy Roar label.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 94, based on 4 reviews, indicating "Universal acclaim".
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Ten years ago, Rolo Tomassi released their debut album Hysterics. At this point, their exuberant Nintendocore sounded like a fairground falling down a flight of stairs. And landing on another fairground. It was a joyous noise, audibly the work of plucky youths gleefully smashing musical boundaries. What it perhaps didn’t sound like was the beginning of something that would last the distance.
It’s both surprising and rather wonderful, then, that this band have evolved into one of this country’s most beguiling cult concerns, influencing the likes of Marmozets and Employed To Serve in the process. Along the way, they’ve constantly renewed and refined their art, culminating in a fifth album which shows just how far staggeringly their journey has taken them.
Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It opens with a rippling synthscape called Towards Dawn which wouldn’t shame any full-time ambient electronica merchant. Too long to be considered an intro, it leads right into single Aftermath, the most straightforwardly lovely tune to which Rolo have ever put their name. It’s not until the third song that heaviness rears its head on the crushing Rituals, a delayed gratification which only enhances both elements.
Time Will Die… is a hugely satisfying listen, with the longer songs in particular allowing the band free rein to indulge every experimental urge. Contretemps pits Eva Spence’s frenzied vocals against twinkly post-rock guitars and a delightful organ pattern, but ends up a delicate ballad. Alma Mater and Whispers Among Us juxtapose hardcore fury and tech-metal shredding with lush melodic sections. And with many of the songs flowing into one another, this album sounds like a multi-part epic made up entirely of multi-part epics. And also, undoubtedly, like a career high.
Reviewed by kerrang.com.
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