Immerse yourself into the heavy and weird Serotonin Blues
Where The Skeletons Play are a purely studio project hailing from Bristol, and on the evidence of Serotonin Blues they write some brilliant music. Bands like Tool, Opeth and to a certain extent Nine Inch Nails have influenced this new breed of prog-metal artists, and a lot of them actually end up falling very short, trying to do too much or ending up being impersonations of their heroes, but not Where The Skeletons Play. This band tick all the right boxes, at times they're crushingly heavy, at times they deliver a beautiful ambience, all collating to create a really great vibe and atmosphere throughout the album. As musicians they are obviously very technically capable to deliver these complicated song arrangements. The album is only a half an hour long, and they end up achieving more than many bands can on 70-80 minute albums.
The opening track Perspex Queen is the first taste of the brilliant vocals mixing influences from Tool's Maynard Kennan and Deftones' Chino Moreno. This comes on top of the foundations of the track which feels like this slow, heavy beast brewing along, building up towards for rest of the album. The other clear highlight off the album comes from the title track Serotonin Blues as the band are able to capture the ambient heaviness which bands like Deftones have been famed for over the years. This then moves into the final track on the album Serendipity which is a weird collation of sounds between the piano at its core and little spacey sound bites. As the album fades out you'll be left sitting there saying to yourself "what the shit was that??!"