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Nine Leaves album review Peace in Death

James Scales
The Commuter

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Peace in Death is the second release from “Nine Leaves”, this particular album takes you to a better time where your albums had tracks that all worked well together. There is soft emotional rap, up to an industrial club feel. The spectrum is so intense that it’s easy to listen to the entire CD and not get bored. A mix of storytelling music and provocative messages, yes, there is a message in their songs, but all you have to do is listen.

Upon looking at the cover, you may think, “Ew, hippies.” Or “Is this more art from metal album cover artist Ed Repka?” But the images are merely showing their album title “Peace in Death” A girl, kneeling, smiling, playing with a butterfly on a grassy patch of land, while the world behind her falls apart. The music does have a slightly apocalyptic feel at times, but it’s something you might enjoy.

Lyrically, they aren’t hiding anything. The lyrics are what they are, there are some messages to be taken and it’s what I can call “wholesome hip hop”, but the sound is so rich that you can be taken away just by that. The music is so deep with orchestra and synthesizers meeting in a harmonic pleasure inducing ride for your ears. Is the album100% quality songs? No, but it’s about par with other albums out there for success to failure on songs.
Like hip hop, rap, or not, the band is certainly worth the look into, with songs on YouTube and MySpace at, http://www.youtube.com/user/NineLeavesMusic and http://www.myspace.com/nineleavesmusic respectively.

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