What a happy day it was when earlier this month we received the newest album from The Plot In You, Swan Song. We’ve all been patiently waiting for new music since their last album in 2018, Dispose. I knew that when this album got announced it was going to be another album that made us feel all different types of emotions. Landon Tewers never fails at completely opening up when writing songs and being vulnerable to us.
Album starts off with Letters to A Dead Friend, it starts off with the steady synths and almost like what sounds like the white noise of traffic. The songs reflect on the passing of a loved one, as the pre-chorus chimes in we get the building of the drums and the increase of angst and pain of Tewers screams. I’m the type of person to let an album run through before I go through and repeat a couple of my favorites but I am guilty of hitting the replay button after this song because of the chills that this song sent down my back and the hard hitting breakdown at the end.
As we transition into Fall Again, we continue with the heavy elements and the hard-hitting vocals from Tewers. I can picture this song in the middle half of a setlist and the way the beginning starts off I can see it to get a crowd going with a classic wall of death. Face Me, one of the few singles that we got earlier on feels like the most experimental songs off the album, with the electronic hooks. It’s something that I wasn’t expecting in the slightest and definitely threw me for a loop but considering the placement of where it falls along the album it keeps you hooked and has you wondering what is next? Too Far Gone, as the song started I knew this was going to be the gut puncher and I’m a sucker for songs that lyrically just mess you up. It’s another type of song that threw me off but in the end I’m a definite favorite, I feel like Tewers really showed up and put his vocals to the test with a stretched-out chorus, and the way his pain echoes all around the song with the guitar carrying it along the way. Paradigm, another single that we received earlier on. Just when you start to get sad, you’re pulled right out of that rut running into this song with the heavy synths in the beginning, killer guitar riffs, and a catchy chorus that will guarantee to get your head banging. This will definitely be a crowd favorite when these guys head out on tour in the fall. As the album continues on, we continue to hear this newer sound from The Plot in You and close to, Freed. It truly was one of the best closing songs to an album that I’ve ever heard with the buildup to the chorus and the fall to silence at the end.
This surely is a completely new era for the band and it’s a sound that has shown us that they have come a long way when it comes to discovering their sound, a lot of the album was produced and mixed by Landon Tewers himself with a little bit of help along the way from others, Tewers has taken on producing albums in the past so this was nothing new. “Took about 3 years working off and on to make this thing happen. This record and FLS were pure therapy for me for the last few years and I hope it can be that for a few others.” states Tewers on his Instagram post when the album released. For any fan of American deathcore, Swan Song is worth giving it a listen with a solid rating of 9/10.
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