Album Reviews
After 12 years and 5 albums, Louisville, KY’s Coliseum went on indefinite hiatus in late 2015. It gave frontman Ryan Patterson – who now goes by the name R.Pattern – the chance to start working on a solo project, Fotocrime.
Patterson has now emerged with his debut EP, “Always Hell”. It comes with three songs and is completely devoid of color and brightness, offering only cold and bleak goth/post-punk sounds instead. The title track comes with a hypnotic guitar lead and Patterson, sorry… Pattern’s distinct voice, before the nervous “Plate Glass Eyes” takes things to an even darker place. Last but not least, “Tectonic Shift” slows things down with eerie synth sounds that wouldn’t look out of place on a S U R V I V E album.
Patterson isn’t exactly breaking the mould here. But hey, at least it sounds better than Wes Eisold’s Cold Cave.
Track listing:
- Always Hell
- Plate Glass Eyes
- Tectonic Shift
Lacking the talent to actually play in a band, Tom decided he would write about bands instead. Turns out his writing skills are mediocre at best as well.
