The sound of Exile Eye?s Melodica Deathship project is a hybrid sound, but that?s not to say that what we are dealing with here is a lazy eclecticism or an unwillingness to commit to any definite sonic trajectory. All the musical tendencies and traditions that inform the Deathship are apparent at all times, so that the hard and crunchy drums of nineties reality rap rub shoulders with the low end ghosts of seventies dub, the horror film soundtrack chills the blood of Irish trad and contemporary postrock, and the midrange betrays the influence of drone, black metal and hardcore punk. Live melodica seems to float above the sound serving the purpose of a mournful narrator, its funereal melodies highlighting a musical and historical link between Jamaica and Ireland that casts the latter as a kind of anti-tropical hell. Colouring the narrative further is Exile Eye?s most original collection of verses yet, referencing slave narratives, horror fiction and paganism, with rhyme patterns mimicking the cadence of heavy metal, the sea shanty, and the trad ballad.
Like all exiles however the Deathship is certain to return, wreaking vengeance upon the society that rejects the misfit, the outsider, and the daydreamer. A misanthropic vision for a cold island.
