Catharsis＜Gold Vinyl＞

スティーヴ・ヴァイが現代のギターヒーローとしてレコメンドするなど世界が今最も注目するギタリストの一人、変幻自在のタッピング・マスター"イヴェット・ヤング"率いるコヴェット待望の最新アルバム!

超絶テクニカルなギタープレイだけでなく、歌心溢れるメロディやエモーショナルなフィーリング、さらにはイヴェット自身がイラストを手掛ける独創的なアートワークなどサウンド、ビジュアルともにクリエイティヴィティに満ちた作品!国内ギターメディアでのプレイ動画解説や同じく新世代ギタリストとして高い評価を得ている"Ichika Nito"との動画メディアでのコラボレーションなど、日本国内でも注目を集めているギタリストです!

California-based band Covet explore an emotional essence in their technical math rock, injecting feelings of yearning, wonder, and curiosity into their mostly instrumental songs marked by bandleader Yvette Youngs virtuosic guitar shredding. Each of the eight tracks that make up the groups third proper full-length, Catharsis, takes a different route, the album being designed as a collection of individual chapters each representing its own realm of fantasy. This delivers varied and interesting results. The romantic hopefulness of "Lovespell" makes it a standout, with understated synths and percussion supporting a springy and optimistic main melody. "Firebird" is similar, with memorable lead guitar lines and perky drumming pushing the tunes happy expressions along. "Vanquish" gets into more tumultuous territory, especially its tornado of an ending, and "Smolder" follows a similar emotional path before crumbling into noisy formlessness. Young adds vocals to a few songs, with wordless vocalizations adding mystery to the piano-based "Interlude" and a murky blur of pitch-shifted singing lingering low in the mix on opening track "Coronal." Covets songs on Catharsis dont exactly break into separate realms of fantasy as they might have intended, but each tune takes a slightly different approach, deepening the bands sound and exposing some of the more emotional details that sometimes hide in their complex composition. ~ TiVo Staff