Italian bands always seems to create music which has such an amazing feeling of grandeur about it. Rome’s Tomydeepestego are no exception. Tomydeepestego’s debut album may only be eight tracks, but don’t be fooled, it makes for over an hour of listening time with some frankly huge songs on there the likes of which most bands would never dare to record.

It’s difficult to gauge the full implication of what the band are doing. It takes a few songs for everything to really sink into place, and during those first few songs (twenty minutes or so) they set the tone as one of melodic and sweet guitar parts laced with more intense moments. The expressionism from the band is amazing, there’s an intricate feel for every last note contained within. Everything is put together so seamlessly that you feel like you’ll get lost in this.

At times it becomes repetitive as the band push through 3/4 minutes of the same progression before eventually moving onto something else. It gives the whole album and the individual songs a huge feel and you can feel yourself being drawn in through each change. It’s hard to pick a highlight. As I say, the whole thing is so seamless that it might as well only be one track, there are no vocals, just instrumentals. The variations are what endears this band to their listeners. The changes are bold and always epic, you feel as though each bar is gradually building towards something more. Credit to Tomydeepestego, they never go all out and overdo it. Everything is so well extensively planned and written that the feeling conveyed is one that everything is just as it should be, not too little, not too much.

Each song has its own moment, its own charm. Tomydeepestego for their part have made a solid debut album, one which will certainly turn a few ears their way. Time will tell if they call fulfill this promise into something as great as the music always threatens to be.