The Multidimensionality of Music

by Dæv Tremblay

Too often music blogs, including ourselves, have rejected, or ignored, the fact that music is not a one-faced art.

From now on, Can This Even be Called Music? will treat albums, and music, as they should be : a multidimensional art.

With our future reviews, we will review music, obviously that’s what interests us the most, but we will also rate the artwork of an album, and the lyrics to it.

Visual artists can spend countless hours on an album’s art, and yet it mostly serves the dull purpose of telling one album from another at first glance. Similarly, a … Read more

Seduce the Heaven – Field of Dreams

by Lefteris Kefalas

A preview of the album can be streamed from Souncloud:

SeducetheHeaven

What could be the result of anundetermined blend of six of Greece’s most skilled and  qualified musicians when they are put together in a band? Well, that can be easily summed up in three simple words and these are SEDUCE THE HEAVEN. This fairly new progressive metal band, has managed to built gradually a worthy reputation under its name by taking small but clever steps in order to establish their name in the (local) scene. In a time when female-fronted metal is almost a cliché, SEDUCE THE HEAVEN came as … Read more

Stagnant Waters – Stagnant Waters

by Dæv Tremblay

Listen to “Of Salt And Water” right here.

Not much chaotic as it is eclectic, Stagnant Waters will storm through your speakers like untamed and dangerous animals. You might only care for the tigers and rhinos, but if you listen closer you’ll be able to see the peacocks and butterflies of this wonderfully diverse zoo.

Indeed, between harsh, heavy parts, there are some electronic passages and truly undecipherable moments.

When does a song end? Is it when the player has stopped playing it? Or is it when you’ve understood all that was going on in the song? If you … Read more

Lopez’s Playlist of 2012

by David Lopez Jr.

Hello viewers, it’s Lopez here with some of my most replayed tracks of the year. The more and more I personally see top 10 list the more I get overwhelmed and I never get a shot to check out all the entire albums. So I made it easy and just selected the tracks I was blasting the most. My other issue was that I couldn’t bring myself to make a top 10 list just due to me missing out on some albums I’ve been dying to listen to.

In alphabetical order. Youtube playlist of these songs is here.

Aeon … Read more