Someone liked the Smashing Pumpkins a whole lot growing up. Being as how that can be a polarizing comment, I'll explain. As I mean it in only one sense.Think of that moment when the song "Today" goes from quiet guitar plinking to full on seven layers of guitar noise. The Joy Formidable do that in every song. The quiet/loud dynamic is pushed to the highest digital levels on the board. They also love to play out those monster-chords for a long time at the end of the song.
For example on the first track, "The Everchanging Spectrum Of A Lie", the proper song ends at around the 5:00 mark. But then they stretch the thing out another 2:45. When listening to that track for the first time, I thought to myself that there was no reason for this. But then around the middle of the album, this concept started to grow on me. As if the JF were getting lost in their own recording. It felt like a good live performance.
Having said that, The Big Roar is lacking the dynamics to maintain your interest for 12 songs. A lot of it comes out sounding the same. It's good, but you'll only walk away with the pieces you connect with, and the rest will seem like lesser versions of that. (3 of 5 stars)
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