You know what is the worst thing about digital music?  Losing the environments for discovering music.  Sure its never easier to hear a new band but sitting in front of a computer is just flat out different than going into a record store or borrowing from friends or in the case of “Revolt” from The Unravelling, driving home after a good long night with friends and hearing this song for the first time on the radio.  You turn up the volume and wonder who performs this song.  Instantly the ears perk up in hopes of remembering some lyrics so you have some information to go off of in tomorrow morning’s quest for the song.  Damn though, the music is too good and you find yourself getting lost in it.  The song ends and the radio station is now locked in with the hopes that you catch the song again and maybe hear title and artist as well.

The song starts at an Industrial Revolution era factory that produces drum beats.  A mechanical turn of the 20th century that pounds a chronal rotation into the 21st.  I am at a loss to find a better location for the lyrics.  All of the modern day gods that must be worshiped or more importantly, worked for, despite everything within us questioning the process.  Only those in tune with the voices inside can shed light and speak for us, much like The Unraveling does here.  From Steve Moore’s lyrics:

The dogmas we call learning
I see a strawman burning

What are dogmas other than scarecrows to frighten us into a certain path.  Don’t come over here, don’t question this, don’t look behind the curtain or the scarecrow will get you.  But eventually these houses of straw will fall and burn, leaving their “learnings” to ash.

The instrumentalist, Gustavo DeBeauville, drags the listener through the mire and into the light Moore is trying to show us.  Each drum beat feels like a weight holding all of us back from our own revolution.  But the guitars come along to create a ladder with each fret raising us up to something more.  Something greater.

This CD will be available everywhere April 25, 2015.

Check out the band at the links below:

Websites:
theunravelling.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/theunravelling