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Enos | Tremolo

A great Dutch band, unfortunately defunkt now. Could've been huge...
CD, Knox/Sonic Rendezvous

Tekst: Bas Ickenroth

Publicatiedatum: 01 maart 2001

It seems the American underground guitar sound is having a kind of a revival, not in the least in Holland. Last year, we had Celestial Season and Suimasen, and 'Grote Prijs' winner Insence, all influenced by acts like Slint, Dinosaur Jr., and Sonic Youth. Enos, also from Holland, released this album last year in April, but it kinda slipped everybody's attention. Indeed, ours also. Too bad, because 'Tremolo' is too good to be left neglected. They too are influenced by the American underground - I hear quite a lot of desolate Slint melodies in the songs. But Slint alone doesn't cover the whole Enos sound, since their sometimes experimental compositions are not easy to pinpoint. If you wanted to make it easy on yourself, you could divide the songs in two: rock/noise and dark/melodic. Two singers, Niels and Born, the first for the rock/noise, the second for the dark/melodic parts. But this would be too easy, for Enos is a band of extremes: Nick Cave is just as important as Barkmarket, and Slint goes hand in hand with dEUS' first album. To this jolly happy party they invited Kyuss for playing the soundtrack. Not all the songs are equally good - the tremendous compository skills show especially in the slower and more experimental tracks, the more aggressive and straight-forward tracks like 'Bones' and 'Drain the Rich' suffer a bit too much from their simplicity and Niels' vocals, which sound a bit shallow. Born, on the other hand, shows convincingly that you don't have to be a good singer to be a good vocalist. The fact that he's not a happy guy and isn't afraid to admit this, adds a huge edge to songs like 'Wall' (the fantastic starter) and the title song 'Tremolo' (utterly brilliant dynamics). Another thing that speaks for Enos is their minimalistic approach: They know damn well what the songs need and don't need, there isn't a single note or drumbeat too much on this album. This combined with the adventurous song structures (not that many verse-chorus-verse songs here) make 'Tremolo' quite a difficult album, but, as always, these prove to be the best albums in the end. If they leave the straight-forward rock format behind and decide to focus more on their 'deeper' side, the next album could be a real classic. Mark my words.