Cane Hill has always existed somewhere between bruising and brooding allowing themselves the space and depth to musically and thematically cover all aspects of the human experience with a raw unflinching honesty.
A Piece of Me I Never Let You Find is their third full length album. It follows from their Krewe De La Mort Volume 1 & Krewe D’Amour Volume 2 E.P’s and is their most impressive work to date.
The maturation and growth that Cane Hill has gone through over the last decade is nothing short of astounding and it echoes throughout every note of this album. This is an explosive album that manages to distill everything that makes up the DNA of the band into one 35 minute blast of tightly executed metalcore
The Midnight Sun & Ecstasy in Grief kick the album off in bone rattling form as two of the heaviest songs they have ever written. I Always Knew We Were Doomed is a gorgeous slice of searing melancholia that hits you like a truck with a brutal breakdown towards the end.
Fade & It’s companion track Fade (Into You) gives Cane Hill the chance to really flex their muscles. They both have killer vocal performances from Elijah Witt and are as close to sounding like an arena band they have ever come.
Eye to Eye (Iris) & Finding Euphoria both brings riffs so heavy they feel like being clattered around the head with concrete blocks. They are offset by How Could You Lose? A trip hop infused moment of serenity that calls back to their Kill the Sun e.p it even has an audio easter egg to that release throughout it.
All of this is without mentioning two of the album’s biggest singles Permanence in Sleep & Drowning Therapy. Both are instant classics, the former of which is already a live favourite amongst fans.
What Cane Hill has done with A Piece of Me I Never Let You Find is staggering. Taking all of their most aggressive artistic instincts and punctuate them with moments of reflectiveness through the use of calmer interludes, not only allows the listener a moment to pause and catch their breath but it also heightens the impact of the album’s more direct and ferocious parts.
Cane Hill aren’t trying to reinvent the wheel here, but what they have done is come of age as a band in a pretty spectacular way and with this album they have just made themselves undeniable.
A Piece of Me I Never Let You Find is out now via Out of Line Music. For more information on Cane Hill click here
