Tár Earns Heavy Hitter Status With The Ominous, Wildly Impressive EP 'Dancing On The Event Horizon'
- 🌟 Miles Carter
- 3 days ago
- 2 min read
By: Miles Carter
The opening notes of Tár’s EP release, ‘Dancing On The Event Horizon’ waste no time in solidifying the band as a heavy hitter in the music arena, and we were wildly impressed with everything we heard.
“A Course For Home” rolls in like a slow-moving row of tanks through a low fog. It is dark, ominous, imposing, and just fearful enough to grab your full attention, while still making you secretly want to see the destruction they are undoubtedly capable of. As the music grows, it growls at you with incredible instrumentation. Daniel Nowakowski’s drums blaze and pound as Robert Lachendro’s bass noticeably keeps a fat foundation that shakes your over-ear headphones. Krzysztof Boboryko’s guitars grind and glow while creating a fierce back and forth with the whole band. Then, last but not least, Tomasz Jackowski’s vocals come in with growing power through each completed bar. Each phrase lands stronger, until the emotion and sound reach a fever pitch and the screams are unleashed.
This becomes an absolute show-stopping moment that left us stunned. First song. First experience. Tár earned first place in our hearts. But it doesn’t stop there. The band loses their shit all at the same time, as if this scream unleashes a firestorm of music. Boboryko’s guitar solo takes front and center and pushes the whole band into a tsunami of sound. Bars of sound fly around the room like laser beams. Drumsticks cracking. Lachendro’s bass thundering and bellowing underneath. This is an explosion of calculated musical perfection.
Next up, we land on “Black Lights,” and the drums feel more pointed and deliberate, while the guitars rival their presence and sound like an engine revving right in your ears. The long-held notes by Jackowski soar over them like a jet plane overhead. It is such a powerful performance, it just becomes more reason to hit follow. Don’t miss the heavy-hitting drum solo.
“Anatomy Of Letting Go” lands with the same gripping force. We are never supposed to pick a favorite, and we aren’t, and we can’t. That is how good this EP is. The chorus in this song, brought by the whole band in unison, is impossible to let out of your mind. Tár says they want to be nostalgic, and they are not kidding. This song sounds like something people would talk about as their favorite from high school.
Vocally, we found Jackowski to be absolutely memorable, with a truly unique voice. Tár’s band members, Boboryko on guitars, Lachendro on bass, and Nowakowski on drums, are assembled as a fantastic group of musicians, but just as important, they are in absolute sync, and this creates the most amazing sound. It is really beautiful and very well executed.
We found this to be a terrific release that will truly impress picky and high-expectation music lovers.
We definitely recommend Tár and their latest EP release, ‘Dancing On The Event Horizon’.
