Album Review: Tesseract - Sonder

Tesseract are one of those bands that don't really need to reinvent their own wheel when they create a new album, because that's kinda what their music does anyway.

No one sounds like Tesseract, no one creates music like Tesseract and, although you can slot them into a 'progressive metal' and even the 'djent' category, they ultimately exist in a genre of one.

Sonder gives the band's many fans more of what they love, that is, unique and evocative progressive heavy music that breaks new ground simply because it emanated from the hearts, souls, imaginations, intellects and nether-regions of the five ridiculously skilled members of the band. All the wondrous Tesseract elements are present — the warped grooves, the head-spinning atmospherics, the blistering technicality and of course the soaring, alluring voice of Daniel Tompkins, which draws you in inexorably, as it always does.

It sounds exactly what you'd expect a Tesseract album to sound like, but it blows your mind anyway.

This album adds yet further lustre to the burgeoning catalogue of a band that seems utterly incapable of making anything even resembling a wrong step. Sonder is superb.