[Album Review]: Evan Brewer - Your Itinerary (2013)

Hello everyone! Today are the first post of this 2015th, and I bring you a Bass Album Review!
Like the solo album from Thomas Giles of Between the Buried and Me, “Your Itinerary” provides a very different musical outlet for The Faceless bassist Evan Brewer. Devastating technical death metal this most definitely is not, but don’t let that stop you from listening, because Brewer knows how to craft very solid music without hellish growls or blast beats. For fans of a proggier, jazzier sound, these eight tracks create an incredibly satisfying excursion to the fringes of metal and beyond. Evan Brewer took the metal world by storm with his 2011 album, Alone. Alone was an album that showcased Brewer's abilities as a bassist and a composer for the instrument all by itself. Now with his newest release, Your Itinerary, Brewer expands his horizons to an entire band's worth of sounds to very good results.

The elements on this album are varied and interesting. Varying from play styles such as jazz to blues and even some electronica. These styles are woven gently by the hands of masterminds proficient on their particular instruments. The additions are superb and bring dynamic feeling to each individual song on the album. Evan's bass work is excellent and more intrinsic to the flow of the album. His bass is essential as it brings complex melodies to the table. As a catalyst in this regard; leading his colleagues follow him upon this journey.

Tracklist:
1. The Adjacent Possible (3:53)
2. Microscopic Scale (3:29)
3. Another World (4:20)
4. This Seems Familiar (6:06)
5. A Little Goes a Long Way (2:31)
6. Cause For Concern (5:10)
7. Home Away From Home (3:20)
8. Full Circle (6:47)

Everything about this album just works. It's intelligently written jazz metal that doesn't try to be more than it is. While a potential listener has to be willing to enjoy styles beyond metal, not to mention music that completely lacks a vocal component, “Your Itinerary” is something any prog metal fan should check out!

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