‘A Spark Or The End’ by Mission To Sleep is an explosive 7-track alternative rock album that takes on energetic free-falls with bright clarity. Each track pulls the listener in with quiet synths before barreling down with electrifying, bright kinetic energy that dives deep for impact.
Each track’s jarring guitars take centre stage. This, much like the themes of each song, juxtapose catchy melodies.
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‘A Spark Or The End’: Track-by-Track
‘A Spark Or The End’: ‘No Anchor’ – ‘Fall Into Bloom’
‘No Anchor’, the first track on the album begins quiet before its guitars barrel down deep with an energetic thrust. “…Keep quiet and listen to the current of this navigation…”. The track sets us off on a bright journey, cinematic, melodic and expansive.
The lyrics on the track feel detached or untethered, highlighting the theme of the song, in a way. This while setting the scene for the rest of the tracks on the album.
‘Designer Graves’ takes on the slight apathy and distance present in the last track, as the soundscape seamlessly transitions from the last song to this one. The soundscape now sounds like a looping spiral, as explosive and energetic as the last but more purposeful this time round. Dark and distant.
“…Through s new kaleidoscope we’re chasing a new dream…
…In the dead of night, we come alive…in designer graves we hope to die…”.
‘Carousel Teeth’ braids synth and dark, descending guitar melodies to create a catchy, melodic burst of dark energy. The soundscape is deep and dark, while the lyrics conjure up dark images. It describes the confusining spiral one enters when we “…speak in circles…”.
‘Fall Into Bloom’ puts a twist on the soft rock love-song, retaining the loud, explosive dark edge from the last few tracks and merging it with a soft, sentimental centre. Its lyrics are love with a dark twist, “…Fingers walk across the flesh and lead me back to you…”.
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‘A Spark Or The End’: ‘The Massacre’ – ‘A Spark Or The End’ and Conclusion
‘This Massacre’ begins, like most of the tracks that preceded it, before tumbling into a loud, spiralling dark-barrage of sound. The guitars rip through with a mood that feels cinematic and epic. “…Time is short, but I am forever…”.
The song holds in it a gravitas that feels sentimental, catchy yet visceral with hard-hitting melodies.
‘Like Heaven’ leans into the album’s explosive juxtaposition, loud with a constant build. “…I feel like heaven, but hell is on it’s way…where shadow come to play…”. That energetic juxtaposition feels bright, like fire. There’s something awry, something that the narrator in the song seems to sense.
The final song on the album, ‘Bury The Ghost’, is a track that seems to capture this sense of expansiveness. This that seems to balance out the heavy hard-hitting cascade that preceded it. The sound is epic and loud while employing tjis immense sense of scale.
This while reflecting on the contradictions that seem to follow some sense of loss. “…How does it feel to disappear into the horror…of obscurity?…”. “…It is a spark or the end?…”, and so “…let’s bury the ghost…”.
Dark, reflective and thought-provoking. The album ‘A Spark Or The End’ by Mission To Sleep captures visceral emotions in ways that feel deep and cinematic. Emotionally-charged, sentimental and vulnerable.
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Mission To Sleep is a rock band based in Boston.
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