Album Review

The Qemists – Spirit In The System

• 17th Aug 2010

Drum and bass starlets The Qemists have bridged the gap between rock and drum and bass with absolute fierce levels of technicality and heaviness with their new album ‘Spirit In the System’. The Brighton three piece have been extremely hard at work creating their signature sound from their core values of heavy rock and their bass heavy credentials. Their sounds leans to a more raw, dirtier take on mainstream fusion of rock and D&B. It has to be said if Pendulum had more ‘street credibility’ and the ambition to literally shake the listener’s head into a sub sonic world of psychotic synths and earth shattering bass heaviness, what would result would be this fine offering of a musical act finding their sound.

With collaborations from Enter Shikari – they toured together in ’09 – The Automatic and grime MC Maxta, the album never drops in energy or rises in predictability.

Every single blip, razor cutting bass and snap snare does lean more to the drum and bass crowd. Whilst the clear, harmonic vocals and obscene dissonance drenched in rock n roll swagger lean more to the rock crowd.

When a song by The Qemists hits the dance-floor there will be unity and a unique shared value of this extreme amalgamation between the people.

This album is sure to be heard on plenty of dance-floors, exactly where it should be heard. Loud, plenty of bass and pure electric energy that will find even the most wooden explorer of bodily coordination into a filthy 2-stepping animal.