Partaking with a heavy-rocking sound that explores the trials of restoration and perseverance, This Lengthy Highway is the placing new album from Deully, the undertaking of Darren Sawrenko. “I named the album This Lengthy Highway as a reminder to myself that it’ll in actual fact be a protracted highway to a full restoration,” the Saskatchewan, Canada-based artist explains.
A heavy alt-rock vigor takes maintain on the opening “One Step Behind,” beckoning to go away behind the “ones who allow you to down.” The vocal catharsis — “the scars you’ve won’t ever heal,” — leads a riveting manufacturing that kicks off the discharge’s thematic prowess in fascinating kind. References to private therapeutic/restoration, and the sensation of being “one step behind,” compel with honest ardency.
“Save My Life” follows with a plea for unity and emphasizing the ability of relationships throughout troublesome occasions. “Save my life, and I’ll do the identical for you,” the vocals let loose amidst slabs of pulsing guitar distortion. Whereas the album’s first two tracks current an onslaught of directness, “Damaged Wings” builds with a steadier momentum. “We will tackle the world,” the vocals aspire, expressing a new-found confidence in persevering and now attaining a way of triumphant confidence.
The album’s title observe is one other standout. “Darkness weighs you down, there’s a glimmer of hope simply inside your attain,” Sawrenko fervently conveys, once more capturing a way of wading by means of hardships searching for that brightness, as elusive as it could appear. Impassioned vocals and distortion-heavy guitar tones once more impress, and that tonal ferocity hardly ever lets up all through This Lengthy Highway.
An exception comes at first of “Tonight I Say Goodbye,” the place emotive piano-laden balladry ventures into lyrical reflections of a goodbye’s bitter affect. “And now I’m alone once more, simply fading away,” the vocals creak out, rousing into an affecting title-referencing hook. This Lengthy Highway is a compelling, emotively honest success from Deully.