Album Review: Aushua – Limbo EP

By Travis Woods

Release Date: 7.11.09

Label: Self-released

It’s one thing for a band to expand its horizons upon each new release, stretching their sound into new sonic territories and environs as they grow as musicians and artists; it’s another thing entirely to punch through those horizons into new stratospheres of excellence and beauty, to not so much expand into new arenas as to explode into them–which is exactly what Aushua has done with Limbo, the six-song follow-up to their debut EP, the solid and searching No Harm Done.

While No Harm Done stood as a debut and unified declaration of Aushua’s sound and style, Limbo is that disc’s inversion–it stretches into multiple directions at once, fraying this way and that, chasing noises and riffs down one melodic, twisting alleyway after another, and forms an eclectic and staggering image of a band discovering its potential.  Songs like the ethereal grooves and howls of “Tuck (How it Feels Away)”, the coolly rippling and glistening crunch of the noisy “Pedestrian,” the one-two punch of hymn-like shouter “Hiding Place” and the closing shimmer of “God in Search of Man” whorl-print together into a dizzying chain of sound, one that feels like anything but limbo; rather, it sounds like a quantum leap forward.

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July 7, 2009 | Filed Under Album Reviews 

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