Heavy Fruit Review

Heavy Fruit Review

Tanggal rilis: 19 Agustus 2014
Genre: Hard Rock, Metal Alternatif, Stoner Batu
Label: Tragic Catatan Pahlawan
Jumlah Tracks: 13
Setelah absen dua tahun dan jumlah diperpanjang waktu yang diperlukan untuk membuat album keempat mereka, He is Legend "Heavy Fruit".


  Suara: 8
  Lyrics: 8
  Keseluruhan Impression: 9
  Rating: 8.4

Sound: Frustrating to some and captivating to others, the lifespan of He Is Legend can be described as enigmatic at best and unstable at worst. With their debut album "I Am Hollywood" containing a primary post-hardcore flavor that evoked influences of Finch and Every Time I Die, He Is Legend wouldn't continue down that road, and their follow-up album, "Suck Out the Poison" (which almost died on the vine due to the band's personal quarrels), would begin to stray away from the harsher post-hardcore sound. By the third album, "It Hates You," He Is Legend almost entirely abandoned the post-hardcore sound they began with, and displayed an amorphous composition with styles ranging from hard rock and stoner rock to sludge metal and psychedelic rock - though this experimentation in sound would pique more interest from listeners and critics rather than piss off those that wanted more post-hardcore from the band. While this new phase for He Is Legend pushed them further as a band to pay attention to, the momentum would stop in its tracks when the band announced an indefinite hiatus soon after their third album was released.

Lyrics: With the music aspect of "Heavy Fruit" standing exceptionally strong, frontman Shuylar Croom could have coasted while writing the lyrics and the album would still end up alright, but thankfully, Croom keeps his lyric skills sharpened. While anybody familiar with He Is Legend know that Croom's lyrics mostly end up in a first-person perspective addressing an unnamed other (but can usually be inferred as a romantic interest), "Heavy Fruit" carries the story of the manically toxic relationship between the narrator and his partner all throughout the album: going from trying to be the fabled "two against the world" couple in "No Visitors," to the realization of how soul-sucking the relationship is in "This Will Never Work" and "Miserable Company," to the "I just can't quit you" confessionals in "Beethozart," "Spout Mouth" and "Be Easy," to the identifying of the pain taken in "Time to Stain" and admitting to getting masochistic enjoyment from it in "Smoker Scoff," which finally erupts into the climactic outburst of "The Carpet."

Overall Impression: In regards to the theoretical butterfly effect, it's said that anyone should be thankful for the struggles they've endured if they're in a good place right now, because they wouldn't be in that good place if not for any and all moments leading up to the present, including those struggles. Though many would want to strike the elongated period of silence from He Is Legend's career, the time it took for "Heavy Fruit" to finally ripen was in every way worth it. Musically, "Heavy Fruit" travels in different directions and different gears, but it's ultimately a cohesive cornucopia. Lyrically, "Heavy Fruit" proves to be one of those albums where the liner notes aren't a formality, but rather, a cipher to study in order to further understand the album. And while He Is Legend have been known to go on for a while in their albums, "Heavy Fruit" certainly justifies the near-hour it takes up. Overall, "Heavy Fruit" shows that He Is Legend is back and better than ever; let's just hope they don't have to take another five years to make another album after this.

“Heavy Fruit” track listing:

1. No Visitors
2. This Will Never Work
3. Miserable Company
4. Something, Something, Something Witchy
5. I Sleep Just Fine
6. Beethozart
7. Spout Mouth
8. Be Easy
9. Time To Stain
10. ABRACADABRA
11. Smoker Scoff
12. The Carpet
13. Heavy Fruit

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