Album Review – Psychomanteum, “For All Time”

Album Review – Psychomanteum, “For All Time” – by Liam Sweeny.

There’s an off-world dynamic in Psychomanteum’s For All Time, It’s within each song. The lead and melody and vox can be skyward and expansive, yet they’re launched from- and anchored to a bedrock of rapid-fire beats and solid chops. It’s Gothic and bleak, It’s 40’s Noir with a new iPhone and a hit list. And even though it’s not industrial music, if you ripped through the album and peeled back its skin, you’d see the guts of machinery.

So, some honorable mentions. In “Blood Atonement,” the rhythm catches in spot, a sliver of a breath, and it rolls you for a second, sounds amazing. This little thing, this little catch does it. And I like how the melody just melts at the end in “For All Time.”

Psychomanteum’s good at creating an atmosphere without being an atmospheric band. The atmosphere they create is more of the setting of a story, the opening scene being a hanging at sea.

For All Time is available on all streaming services: Apple, Spotify, Amazon and more. Psychomanteum recorded everything at Brian Manteum’s home studio, where it was produced and mixed.

 

 

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