SubRosa - No Help For The Mighty Ones (2011)

 Having largely overlooked this release when it came out, I found it due time to revisit this stunner. No Help For The Mighty Ones is an exceptional collection of songs. In Latin, SubRosa, is defined as "under the rose". In English, the term is used in reference to secrecy or confidentiality. Musically, this band has quite an aire of the mysterious. I can easily envision SubRosa as the soundtrack to some underground societies ritual. Shrouded figures gathered around, swaying in a joined trance-like state while vocalist Rebecca Vernon acts as the orator to the proceedings. While their approach is extremely straight forward, all the component in place make one pretty epic and captivating album. Thanks in part to their dual violinist attack. Yeah you read that right. While most bands have lead and rhythm guitarists, they have dueling violins. Their addition add an entirely different kind of heavy to this record. Beautiful, melancholy, heavy, and totally triumphant, No Help...has everything I love and look for in an album of this type. SubRosa- No Help For The Mighty Ones will most certainly be counted among some of my favorite records. This will be on serious rotation for a while.


                   


                          

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