EVA CAN'T – Hemispheres

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7.5

• Bands:
  EVA CAN'T
• Duration: 01:09:00
• Available from: 09/20/2024
• Label:

• My Kingdom Music

We had left the Bolognese Eva Can't on our pages at the time of their previous full-length, “Gravatum”, for which we had spent words of praise. Since 2017, however, the band has not been inactive and, after releasing an EP in 2019, entitled “February”, they threw themselves into an ambitious undertaking, which required five years of work and which takes shape today with “Hemispheres”.
Eva Can't embark on a concept album that represents a real journey from one pole of the globe to the other, with an orderly, methodical structure, like a perfectly chiseled nautical map.
We start from the North Pole (“Hemisferi I”), cross the three episodes of “Boreal Ice”, pass the “Coast Line I”, continue sailing for three more songs on the “Boreal Seas”, reach the Equator and from there we take the same route, in reverse, in the southern hemisphere, up to the South Pole.
Musically, the band's proposal is configured with a post-metal/avantgarde style similar to bands such as Cult Of Luna and Explosions In The Sky, characterized however by lyrics in Italian which, also thanks to the quality of the writing and a notable lexical sophistication, bring us closer to the best tradition of local songwriting.
“Hemisferi” is a work with an important duration, almost seventy minutes; however, Eva Can't manage to manage this mass of sound well, also thanks to the concept itself, which becomes a guide to appreciate the evolution of the songs even better.
Thus, for example, the two sections of ice are characterized by a harsher, more inhospitable sound, just like the lands they describe; while the compositions of the warmest seas or coastlines offer us a melancholy and at times lulling sound like the waves of the sea. These are details that make it clear the care and attention put by the band in managing the concept, as for example in the case of “Prima Tempesta (Mari Boreali I)”, where the use of the drum cymbals almost seems to reproduce the sensation of pouring rain, while the band builds atmospheric melodies and riffs.
Of course, seventy minutes is a long time and it is not always possible to keep the listener's attention high, sacrificing a bit of freshness to the needs of balance and rigor of the concept album, but, exactly as we said at the time of “Gravatum ”, we still prefer a band that knows how to take risks in order to chase their artistic vision, rather than playing it safe.
It is difficult to extrapolate individual episodes, an operation that would undermine the very idea behind this concept: “Hemisferi” is a journey and as such must be traveled in its entirety, fully experiencing its beauties, the effort and all the colors that they constitute the palette.
The listener now has the task of letting himself be carried away by the currents of the sea, abandoning himself to the art form which, more than any other, truly manages to make us take journeys without having to take a step outside the house.