Enumclaw – Home In Another Life
Enumclaw's second full-length is comforting, invigorating, and totally addictive
Home In Another Life is the second full-length album from Tacoma, Washington’s Enumclaw. Do a little digging and you’ll find the band’s namesake: the City of Enumclaw, WA – a moniker synonymous with skill and ferocity (in Native American mythology), and a word that translates as “he who makes noise” or “thundering noise”. Spend the half an hour or so it takes to listen to the album and that name makes perfect sense.
Home In Another Life is a modern ode to the alternative rock and grunge of the 90s and the band passionately delivers that irresistible loud-quiet-loud dynamic with squalling guitars, slacker vocals, soothing melodies and dense clouds of fuzzed-up noise. It's comforting, invigorating, and totally addictive, and the album's relative brevity urges you to spin it again, and again, to hear its best moments – just one more time.
Whether it’s the unhinged final cry of 'I’m in love with you' (Spots), the cathartic shouts punctuating the chorus of the lead single Change, or the wailing emphasis on the end of the line, ‘We don’t know where we go, we just go... away...’ (This Light of Mine) – Home In Another Life keeps you coming back for more.
Listen to: Spots, Change, This Light of Mine