analoguetrash - Turning Tide Review

While memories are usually rooted in a specific time and place, so too is music. But sometimes, heading to the past can help us find our present.

The news that Sugar have reunited to embark on a run of live dates, and release new music, got me listening to Turning Tide from a different perspective. A comparison to the fast-burning light of Bob Mould’s seminal early 90s outfit is a suitable one for Lost Anchor’s new album, because often, the vocal and guitar melodies could easily have made an appearance on Copper Blue.

Indianapolis, Indiana based Lost Anchor find commonalities with that iconic album on tracks like Clarity and album opener Broken Thread, as a melodic take on post-hardcore gives those songs a timeless presence, at times with power-pop and grunge dancing in the shadows of the arrangement.

However, the quartet have referenced the likes of Alter Bridge, Deftones, and Foo Fighters as influences, and that confluence of rock, hardcore, and grunge helps to define Turning Tide. On Broken Thread the band allow the lyrics to break through a wall of yielding noise, displaying that as much as Lost Anchor find inspiration in alt-rock and hard rock, they attach great importance to the words carrying as much import as the music.

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