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Violent Soho – WACO Review

Image: Mushroom Promotions
Image: Mushroom Promotions

WACO is Violent Soho’s highly anticipated fourth album and follow up to the bands breakthrough 2013 album Hungry Ghost.

We first got a taste of WACO in late 2015 with the release of the albums first single, “Like Soda”, which climbed its way to 15th spot in Triple J’s Hottest 100 of 2015. “Like Soda” was a harder, rawer sounding Soho, leaving some of us wondering what sort of album we would be getting in 2016.

WACO is roughly 46 minutes of what every Violent Soho fan has come to love and expect.

The album starts with the song “How to Taste”, which is arguably the heaviest sounding song Violent Soho has released to date. It’s a blistering four and a half minutes of loud guitars backed with aggressive vocals.

The song “So Sentimental” is somewhat reminiscent of 2013’s “Saramona Said. It has lighter, softer sounding guitars with ghostly backing vocals which lend depth to the album.

Songs such as “Slow Wave” and “Viceroy” both build into loud thrashing choruses and are two more weapons that Violent Soho have added to their ever expanding arsenal.

Low” is the softest song on the album and shows just how versatile Violent Soho can be. Some of the best songs off of 2013’s Hungry Ghost, such as “OK Cathedral” and “Hungry Ghost, followed this softer style and showed that Violent Soho isn’t a one trick pony.

“Low” gently brings WACO to an end and with some lovely lyrics and guitar work. Although Violent Soho are one of the best rock acts in Australia, it would be nice to see an album sometime in the future that features slower and softer songs like “Low”.

Probably the crowning jewel of WACO is the song “Holy Cave, which mixes all the best elements of the Soho sound and ties it all together with religious themes from albums past.

There’s a good mix of quality songs on WACO which fans new and old will surely enjoy.

By Michael Klammer

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