Rýr – Dislodged

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7.0

• Band:
  Rýr
• Duration: 00:40:08
• Available from: 11/04/2025
• Label:

• Moment of Collapse

The anguish in a silent look, in the repetitear of a sound. Despite the meaning of their name ('weak', 'sterile') can make us think on the contrary, the music of the Rýr is far from without strength or intensity.
Formed in 2018 and basically in Berlin, the three musicians (known only for their own names) soon began with a disc, “Left Fallow” (Narshardaa Records, 2019) which collects six songs loaded with tension, deeply influenced by the post-metal of formations such as Cult of Luna and Pelican. The band's career then continued with “Transient” (2022), which has earned flattering reviews in progressive and metal magazines, and the new “dislodged” (literally: driven out, abandoned, dislocated) is now published by Moment of Collapse Records.
The disc represents the third chapter on the long distance of the German band, and continues in the wake traced by the previous works: a dark and claustrophobic post-rock, built on repeated riffs and obsessive rhythmic patterns, well represented by the suggestive title-track, which perfectly embodies its spirit.
All the traces of the album seem to float in a blanket of dense and gray fog, crossed from time to time by elusive and vaguely threatening figures, such as the electrical ripples that open “Lapsed”, a song in which the influence of the Magnus Lindberg band and members becomes particularly evident.
Although devoid of lyrics, “dislodged” manages to communicate a lot, taking the time necessary to design and build monumental and suggestive sound structures, which recall those of bands such as Mogwai for affinity of intent, this Will Destro You or Primo, Hispide Massimo Volume, the latter obviously without the poems of Emidio Clementi.
In this context, the tremolo forced into a rigid rhythmic cage of “flung”, the first single extract, is an excellent landing point (at least the least rough) to approach the disc. “Winded”, on the other hand, represents the Nemesis, and welcomes the listener with a growing growing, built on an obsessive rhythmic base, above which two guitars clash between dissonances and martial riffs.
Ultimately, “dislodged” is a job in which the band moves with security between changes of time and tightened dialogues between bass and guitar, in a musical language certainly anchored to the first decade of the two thousand (period in which, according to the writer, the trio would have enjoyed greater consideration by the public), but which still retains a good expression capacity today.
A solid album, which confirms the potential of the Rýr, but which still does not find the courage to move from the comfort zones that the trio has built in recent years, a condition that over time could risk becoming a serious limitation.

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