Review: Efek Rumah Kaca Pamamkan Riuhnya Menyawatkan Dalam Rimpang

House of Glass Effect (Doc. House of Glass Effect)

JAKARTA - We got to know the Houseglass Effect through the friendship environment first. At that time, when everyone was relaxed drinking cheap hot coffee with a plastic cup, then being hit again by the sweetness of nicotine from cigarettes, while rotating the music songs that were contested, we had to be unik which arises from the many requests of friends. The atmosphere did run so wild, but in one moment, we immediately began to be distracted in one song.

We also started to ask enthusiastically. Shortly thereafter, one of our friends replied that this was a song from the Glass House Effect titled December. With a musical structure that carries elements of pop, but is able to captivate us because of the unique chords and lyrics so that they remain catchy in the ear.

From there, we began to eat one by one the physical releases and the appearance of House of Glass Effects at various points. Singing with the roar of a group of fans who enjoyed their songs that were easily memorized because they had a myriad of attractive choruss.

However, all that changed when the House of Glass Effect began releasing the album Synestesia in 2015. Suddenly we were surprised by their development. A bunch of chorus catchy and a musical structure that is easily attached to previous songs are immediately lost on this album.

It's not a bad news, but it's a development we're enjoying because of the wealth of harmony that supports this album. Even though we only often hear a few songs.

Until it arrived this year, the Glass House Effect released its full album titled Rimpang with Idiiw Records. "We have no expectations that they will issue an album that is more powerful than Sinestesia, given the complexity of the arrangement and the long duration of the album."

Moreover, their age is also getting older, making us skeptical of the escalation of their creativity. Evidently, at EP Street Six Three, we don't really enjoy it in full.

It turned out that our presumption was completely wrong. Reza Ryan's entry as a new member was able to increase immunity in the band's 22-year-old body. In fact, to show wealth in terms of harmony, sound, and vocals, they don't have to be long-winded like on the Sinestia album.

Although a similar sensation also approached as first heard of the Sinestia album. Foreign, wild, and surprising!

The message conveyed on the cover of the album is also biased, thus making this curiosity even more thickened.

Other resiliences also arise, including from such plenary atmospheric variations. The boisterous vocal procession enlivens the contents of the song, an attractive piano game, ambience from keyboards, synthesizers, and guitars that take over the atmosphere so great.

All of these sensations are also dissolved in the slow tempo that is sweeping. Of course, it is also supported by good quality sound production.

One element that has returned as well as we miss is the drum pattern 'planet' from Akbar. You can hear on the Sondang track, we are very surprised how Akbar can think of swiping slowly the drum club sweeping the title and playing the kick occasionally almost along the song. Its creativity are very capable of living the feel for this song.

The use of fuzz effects is also felt once on this track, played in a tandem with the same chord. One of the tracks on this album that you should look at.

Turning to our Purba track. Speaking of arrangements, we can say that this track is the easiest to enjoy."

"We can imagine how when this song is played at live time, the audience will sing a long and disturb their heads because of the effects of guitar distortion hitting the catchy that comes in the middle of the song."

The writing of the lyrics from Cholil Mahmud also did not escape the attention. This time he was not as good as the previous albums.

The analogy shown on the Berhiduh Dance track is an example of his greatness. We feel that the track is a picture of an apocalypse that is processed like a fairy tale like a story book when we were children.

Kami bisa mengatakan, bahwa album Rimpang adalah sebuah pencapaian terbaik bagi Efek Rumah Kaca. Tentunya, faktor-factor di atas juga mampu menyuburkan kembali ladang suka terhadap mereka yang semakin melayu pada kami.

Even so, our criticism of this album only lies in the difficulty of attaching the songs to our memory. It took longer for us to be able to achieve that.

So, don't expect you to be happy and easy to sing their songs, such as on the self-titled album, Dark Chamber, or EP Jalan Six Three. Because on the Rimpang album, they prefer to put out the boisterous singing and try to reflect on the form of their maturity for us.