JULY 2009 ONLINE EDITORIALS

Something Like Symmetry - Silicon Dawn

By Matthew Martin

If you’re a sucker for strings in an indie-rock setting here’s your lollipop. Something Like Symmetry’s debut album Silicon Dawn fits the recent sound indie has been molded into. It seems that in recent years the band geeks, or in this case orchestra geeks, have infiltrated almost all genres of music. Or at least the people who grew up playing classical instruments have incorporated them into the modern four-piece rock band. I think that the violin, a key feature on many of Silicon Dawn’s tracks, is well used and is, in my opinion, more necessary than the singer.

Most of the tracks are instrumental and work very well on the album. As successfully experimental as they are overall, one song just doesn’t quite cut it: track #7, “Mission Accomplished, the Blood Is on your Hands.” If you’re on LSD, a seventeen minute song may be enjoyable. To sober ears, however, it sounds like about four songs that lack transitions. It’s not a bad song, but a little heavy on the layering.

It may take a couple of times around to truly absorb Silicon Dawn; but if you do overlook the vocal tracks, you will enjoy the instrumental songs a great deal. Check Something Like Symmetry’s Myspace page for their Fort Collins CD release show this month.