Description

Rock music can evoke different emotions depending on where you coming from, and what you like. Thus what may appeal to one person, may not appeal to another. Does not mean the music is bad, just that you and I might differ on the variants of rock that we enjoy. I think Benesser is one of those rock bands that you’ll either like or not like. Progressive rock music is not simplistic, and like any progressive form of music requires your attention. In many ways progressive music is not something you put on for back ground ambiance. Well done progressive and technical music shall have a soul. It shall be able to stand alone by itself and woe the listener in and sweep the listener in and take him/her on an adventure to an experience and Benesser is one of those bands. Swedens Benesser was founded in 1998 and as the years have progressed they have worked their way through different genres and influences. Building on this quality and repertoire, guitarist, Henric Hermass has become well known name on guitar forums around the world for his modified tube amplifiers. Its Henric’s interest in guitar sounds through plenty of hours listening and tweaking that gives Benesser a very unique and distinctive sound and quality that dissolves any notion that this is a mediocre band. It was frustrating when Henric would zone out during every single rehearsal the first few years – strumming the same chords a million times, tweak something and never really get satisfied…Now 10 years later I’m so grateful for the result. – David Olsson, drummer. Their 2015 offering, Purpose And Cause was recorded in MapleTone Studios, Vastervik, Sweden, produced by Henrik Gennert, whose previous work includes bands such as Katatonia and Earthside. To get the best out of the album they worked together experimenting to find an organic sound that would best sustain all the way to the final recording, the result thus, all tracks were recorded live. It’s that live sound that captures the energy and intensity of the band, and gives a warm and fluid sound to the band. Purpose And Cause is lyrically sensitive and at times vulnerable it reinforces my sentiments that this is an emotional release of which a lot of effort, thought and time has been put into it. Technically I cannot see you hearing a better album this year if you love progressive rock. Yes it might not have that 100% commercial footprint on it, because its more art than song, but that said I am prepared to stick my neck out and say its way better than allot, if not all of that commercial rock that squirms its way to the top under the banner of quality rock. This is intelligent rock at its finest. The album is set to a landscape of melodies and moments that drives with confidence yet are sensitive and fragile in nature, like if one note was out of place it could fall apart. Yet within that the care to bring a song with such emotion forward gives it a life, a realness that the listener is able to relate to. Every time I listen to the album I hear something new, and the experience never tires. It is certainly an album that is not about to gather dust in my musical archives any time soon. The thing is though with the bar set so high on this album, one does wonder what next? Where to from here? How do you go from here and better this, without reconstructing yourself?

Track listing:
1. Naked We Die
2. Purpose And Cause
3. Something In The Way
4. Waterfalls
5. Who Am I
6. Patience
7. Closer
8. Turn It Right
9. The Past, The Present, The Future
10. Shawshank