Wind-Up
2007
Strata Presents The End Of The World
About This Album
After trading in their Metal Muff distortion pedals for digital delay pedals and pawning off their Hoobastank reference discs for Interpol CDs, Strata has made hefty strides into an alternate musical universe. In fact, if you listen to their self-titled disc and Strata Presents the End of the World back-to-back, the amount of growth between the two is remarkable. What originally sounded like a nu-metal grunge soundtrack that might be played during a pole dance at a seedy strip club has evolved into an atmospheric and epic sound representative of My Chemical Romance, and even Mars Volta to a lesser extent. The more dreamy orchestral form will likely lose fans of the first album, but it is a vast improvement from the old style. Their musicianship has gotten better, as has the production value and the band's willingness to experiment with studio trickery. More importantly, this new moody style of music better accompanies the content, which has become profound and topical. Since publishing a personal book of memoirs, Coma Therapy, it seems that singer Eric Victorino has learned to tap into his inner poet and started writing more cohesive verses about topics like, well, as the title suggests, the end of the world.
Track List (try tracks 1,3,5,6 and 12)

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