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...The quintet calledThis Misery Garden consists of twin guitars, bass, drums and vocals. What we have here with Another Great Day on Earth are 14-tracks all in the three-to-five minute range that will find a nice home on any modern rock playlist. Let me clarify, modern rock with hints of proggy embellishments. The tunes all feature some intricate arrangements where layers of electric guitars will slide away making room for acoustic guitars. And just when things start to sound a little samey the band open up a new box of tricks such as “Rejection Song” [5:30]. One of their most intriguing tracks is “Instant Recoil” [5:54] which starts of in a more somber style with a long introduction preceding the hollow echoing vocals. The tune itself is one that’s more low key and mid tempo but full of edgy atmosphere. You just wait for something to explode as the tension is built; which it sort of does around the four and half minute mark. Nice...
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...Another Great Day on Earth presents us a band that knows exactly what they want to deliver. The mix between the A Perfect Circle and Katatonia is tremendously evident in Rejection Song, and it is a odd but rewarding result, as the band delivers a polished, well worked out compositional package. The album flows like an emotional ride through despair, rage, hope, sarcasm and plain sadness, all this courtesy of an inspirational singing that serves the music to perfection. The production is also very A Perfect Circle oriented, as the percussion work gets more attention when it provides detailing sounds, getting back to their place in a more background routine when it is the guitar and the vocals that need to stand out for leading purposes, so that the track can evolve in the precise direction the band wants it to...
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The best comparison for Geneva’s This Misery Garden, who formed in 2005, began recording the album in 2007, and finally finished it in 2009 is probably a more progressive version of Belgian outfit Tim’s Favourite, who also merge dark melodies and lyrical themes into a core heavy sound. There are also elements of Katatonia and Porcupine Tree, and perhaps a less oppressive Alice In Chains, to be found in this long and highly complex, involving record which mixes so many different styles and ideas it’s nearly impossible to describe all of them. Every emotion and feeling is touched upon across the fourteen tracks, including anger (On The Edge) and melancholy (Bittersweet), and everything in between. From a musicality point of view there is also plenty to enjoy, with acoustic passages (Dirty Playground), heavy riffs, and clean melodies; guitar solos are thin on the ground but rarely missed...
www.jukeboxmetal.com/2010/this-misery-garden-another-great-day-on-earth

The allure of This Misery Garden might be found in their name. A garden is a place of beginnings and endings, of life and death, with the eternal element of hope also fixed upon it. Yet, misery can describe any of these appointments as well. On their debut work, Another Great Day on Earth, This Misery Garden explores both hope and despair with each swelling and rising within the progressive compositions. The title itself is also reflective of their musical and lyrical tone even as it bends in upon it's own cynicism. This Misery Garden's atmosphere and content is dark, deep, and often foreboding layers of melancholy with songs such as Swan Song, Rejection Song, the carefully betraying Instant Recoil and Dirty Playground being disturbing representatives. Between the eerie and introspective movements,
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...Built upon a solid base of well constructed and memorable melodies the album, of fourteen tracks, is both assured and confident. This confidence is not at all misplaced and as they launch into the title track that opens the album. Its spiky driving riffs ignite the speakers and grab you in a powerful headlock. The powerhouse guitars of Laurent and Atoine, sit astride a solid wall of rhythm created by Jay’s bass and drummer Stephan. Benjamin’s impressive and never over played vocals completes the scene and as the power of “Vermilion River” opens out you quickly realize that this is a band who know their own direction. Early highlight “Instant Recoil” underlines their ability to keep it balanced in this case with an impressively atmospheric track. “Force Feed” powers in like a train in a tunnel whilst an impressive “Pantomimes” and the excellent “Bittersweet” ease it back down providing their now familiar counterbalance...
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