Fresh off a UK tour with ‘Chunk!, No Captain Chunk!’ and with multiple tours of mainland Europe under their belts, ‘Climates’ are experiencing abundant success for an unsigned band. Their sincere and emotive brand of melodic hardcore has garnered much esteem across all platforms, and so it should.
Climates, relatively uniquely, have a tendency to switch things up unexpectedly and without warning, leaping across their genre from one extremity to the other and back again. This is a recurring theme throughout the EP and seems to be a stand out quality that few bands possess. Too often we tend to witness a conservatism within hardcore that restrains and restricts, that chains music to a one dimensional plane. Climates, with fervent courage and without inhibition, break free from this conservatism and burst forth into the multi-dimensional.
What’s most impressive about their latest effort though, is its coherence and its consistency. All elements of the EP blend together seamlessly. What the lyrics attempt to portray is manifested in the music itself and the music itself is reflective of the band’s own struggles. Reverb laden guitar riffs try, in vain, to suppress a single yet immeasurably strong vocal presence.
What that voice tries to tell us is deep and provocative. Its messages are ambiguous enough to incite thoughtful consideration but not so cryptic that meaning cannot be found. One phrase, in particular, touched me more than any lyric has in quite some time. I found myself reciting it over and over again in my head, finding something new to take from it each time but never truly knowing its meaning. “If I could set the sun, I’d bring back the days of golden”. In some ways, those words sum up the EP most succinctly.
Climates aren’t ‘just another hardcore band’, thoughtlessly screaming into a microphone because their friends think it’s cool. They are a pensive and meticulous group of talented musicians who will go as far as their music takes them which, in all likelihood, is pretty darn far.
Climates, relatively uniquely, have a tendency to switch things up unexpectedly and without warning, leaping across their genre from one extremity to the other and back again. This is a recurring theme throughout the EP and seems to be a stand out quality that few bands possess. Too often we tend to witness a conservatism within hardcore that restrains and restricts, that chains music to a one dimensional plane. Climates, with fervent courage and without inhibition, break free from this conservatism and burst forth into the multi-dimensional.
What’s most impressive about their latest effort though, is its coherence and its consistency. All elements of the EP blend together seamlessly. What the lyrics attempt to portray is manifested in the music itself and the music itself is reflective of the band’s own struggles. Reverb laden guitar riffs try, in vain, to suppress a single yet immeasurably strong vocal presence.
What that voice tries to tell us is deep and provocative. Its messages are ambiguous enough to incite thoughtful consideration but not so cryptic that meaning cannot be found. One phrase, in particular, touched me more than any lyric has in quite some time. I found myself reciting it over and over again in my head, finding something new to take from it each time but never truly knowing its meaning. “If I could set the sun, I’d bring back the days of golden”. In some ways, those words sum up the EP most succinctly.
Climates aren’t ‘just another hardcore band’, thoughtlessly screaming into a microphone because their friends think it’s cool. They are a pensive and meticulous group of talented musicians who will go as far as their music takes them which, in all likelihood, is pretty darn far.