Album Review: Entrance Shows Your Life Is A “Book of Changes”
Changes are the hardest and greatest thing we can do. Some changes are for the better so that we cannot achieve a sense of comfort and virtue within our own being. Other changes shake us and make us wonder whether being ourselves is even possible.Whether changes are for better or worse, positive or negative, light or darkness, etc. the point is we never stop changing because life never stops changing and ,if we are alive, we must abide by this universal fact whether we acknowledge it or not. I know this is an album review, but I state the above because Entrance’s Book of Changes is all about the grandeur and woe that strikes your soul as your world continuously turns without your say.
Book of Changes is a highly spiritual album, and I believe it was Entrance’s full intention to make an album that is deeply personal. When you sing about your struggles to grasp to something that will always be the same like in “The Avenue” or you decide “Leaving California” is the only way to escape the ghosts of past decisions in relationships, people can’t help but build a sense of intimacy with Entrance. You feel emotionally connected to his desire to both leave this world and be a part of it all at once. He reveals that torn feeling with vocals that come off like whimpers from a willow tree. He is more than soft in his voice: he is serene in how he spikes his vocals like they are constantly trying to rise in the same way his life is trying to hit a higher note, as well. Ironically, he seemingly drops his drops his notes like gentles leaves letting go of the tree that for so long gave it sustenance; there is a mutual sense of delicacy and pain. This may seem like a vivid, ethereal image, but it seems befitting to talk about human nature within it interconnection to environmental. “Summer Child”, “Warm & Wild”, and “Winter Lady” are all songs that use weather analogies to describe how relationships touch our hearts like temperature or the elements do our skin.
Book of Changes seems like the tale of a man and his guitar as they go through life together. You can completely imagine Entrance writing his song “Molly” after seeing her last or writing “I’d Be A Fool” after you really bad day/ relationship fight. All there are other instruments like a sweet bass and a tapping drum. It is folkish melodies he musters that elevate the bond between him and his guitar. I would define Book of Changes as modern folk music; still grasping the winding nature of this genre. He brings it to a new age/ generation who will feel the timeless gang of both wanting change but also dreading it. For More Information on Entrance And To Buy Book Of Changes Click Here.
