Combining alternative rock (with a slight 90s orientation) with neoprog and melodic rock, the French act Low ID really combine the best of three scenes on their aptly titled Discoverock which is a very well balanced and well put together album.
From the intro and the first part of 'Discoverock', with their use of crystal clear clean delay-enhanced guitars, it quickly becomes apparent that Low ID take atmosphere and ambience seriously, and that melody is an important part of their over all sound. Mellow tracks like 'All Lies Behind' and 'The Living World', as well as the instrumental 'The Last Day Before the Rest of My Life' witness a soft and melancholic side to the Frenchmen, while 'Alone' is dark and melancholic with slight echoes of The Pixies, and 'A Strange Place We Call Home' is an introspective and heavy, pensative rocker. Combining funk and groovy hard rock in the perspective of neoprogm 'Care Enough' is at one and the same time aggressive and sophisticated, and the second part of 'Discoverock' features some almost metallic elements, offering a heaviers rendition of the Deicoverock themes.
A main attraction of the album, in addition to the driving bass, which I quite like, is the use of big vocal melodies in the choruses, which sometimes have an almost Iron maiden-like quality to them (although Vincent Loisy, of course, sounds nothing at all like Bruce Dickinson). The production is crisp and both the acoustic parts and the electric parts are very well balanced.
Fans of melancholic alternative rock are bound to like Discoverock - expecially if they do not mind a slight neo-progressive twist.
Tracklist:
1. Discoverock (Entrance)
2. Discoverock Part 1 (Discovering You)
3. All Lies Behind
4. The Living World
5. Alone
6. The Last Day Before the Rest of my life
7. New Horizon
8. A Strange Place we Call Home
9. Care Enough
10. The Letter
11. Discoverock Part 2 (Discovering Me)
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