Style: Black metal, jazz
Primary Emotions/Themes: An expansion of the sounds found on Futility Report
Thoughts: What if we took jazz and mixed it with black metal... but we also made the tracks twice as long...? That's Love Exchange Failure.
In all seriousness, Love Exchange Failure is the logical follow up to Futility Report in just about every way possible. The songs are longer, the jazz sections are more pronounced, the black metal is more intense, and there are more instances of the styles overlapping. It's everything I wanted in a follow up album.
White Ward has cemented themselves as one of the more interesting black metal bands in recent years. Their three albums all show what the genre is capable of when creative minds put together well crafted music. The inclusion of the saxophone is not a truly novel idea, but the fact that they use it so liberally and incorporate large sections of jazz influence is what puts them ahead of the game. It all works perfectly together, and the more I listen the more I get out of the music. This kind of stuff is why I listen to metal.
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