Vagiant’s
themes range from substance abuse, blasphemy and their unusual mutual sense of
humour. From spring 2011 to around the same time this year, the quartet has
toured the world, including all over their homeland of France, as well as
Russia.
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First track ‘Welcoming’ is an eerie, spoken, welcome to ‘The Gospel According to Vagiant’, which, as verbalised in French, cuts off
Vagiant’s potential to be universal, with their preach-like opening. Whilst
‘Origins of Man’ is a straight up, rhythmic,
Rock track, with angsty screams and a rhythmic domain, ‘Eternal Quest of Endless Beauty’ is full of screeching guitaring.
But the track is all over the place
musically, with spoken sections that do not combine well with the start-stop
style instrumentation. The lyrics are also difficult to understand through the
vocalist’s accent and thick, sludgy Metal quality. Vagiant have managed to
pin-point the creepily dawdling Grunge genre with classic Rock guitaring.
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Vocals come across as whiney, and
high-pitched in ‘How Bad is Your Karma?’ which,
despite more great guitaring, makes use of swap and change speed selection, and
the attempt at an anthemic Rock track through ‘Molerats’ fails to impress.
If only Vagiant’s songwriting ability was as strong and hard-hitting as
their song titles. And as they have yet to indicate their precise genre, the
blend of Rock, Grunge, Metal and Indie elements do not fuse.
1/5
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