Album Review: Disco Ensemble - The Island of Disco Ensemble

Disco Ensemble, and their latest album 'The Island of Disco Ensemble' suffer from unfortunate naming. It isn’t the bands fault of course, more a sign of the times. Flick through a list of new bands and Disco Ensemble would probably be one that would be shied away from, due to the popularity of fluro haircut bands that churn out an endless number of vapid tracks that are seemlingly excused from their vapidness, because “they are fun party records dude”. Disco Ensemble, refreshingly are not one of these bands. The Finnish outfit instead have a ten track offering of energetic post hardcore that deserves to be given a chance.

‘Bay of Biscay’ is the first song, and is a pretty good indicator of the band’s sound for the album. Big guitar hooks led by Miikka Koivisto’s passionate vocal delivery. Koivisto is impressive through the album, his vocal styling’s lend the lyrics a sense of urgency, and when he unleashes his screams, they always feel like an earned outburst of emotion, instead of just screaming for the sake of it. Another rather refreshing thing about this album is the use of the keyboards. They aren’t just tacked on there for no reason, and they aren’t impossible to hear due to the wall of noise going on in front of them. No, they actually add something here, and give some of the songs some much needed atmosphere. ‘So Cold’ is a good example of this, nothing too extreme, but a few simple notes really add to the beginning of the song.

Disco Ensemble Tour Video

Disco Ensemble have posted a new tour video, which covers the bands appearance at Rock Am Ring.

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New Disco Ensemble Album

Disco Ensemble will release their new album, 'The Island of Disco Ensemble' on June 4th.

1. Bay of Biscay
2. Pitch Black Cloud
3. White Flag for Peace
4. Protector
5. So Cold
6. Get Some Sleep
7. Life of Crime
8. Semi Eternal Flame / Undo
9. Lefty
10. Samantha