REVIEWS
8 BOHREN & DER CLUB OF GORE Piano Nights
8 BOYFRNDZ Breeder
7 BRETON War Room Stories
PIAS (2014)
Brutal Panda Records (2014)
Believe Recordings (2014)
Largely an extrapolation of their sound than a divergence, this is still the only music that you need with you at 3 am, when the wine is running dry and the only other sounds are the rain spattering against the window. Mellotron and saxophone swell like a mournful Giallo closer played out in slow motion, backlit by tense melodies that seem to crystallise in the air. Bohren & Der Club of Gore songs progress at a glacial pace, each note bringing with it its own desperate air, and in this way, they build up an air of suspense that never quite fades. Sombre, yet flawless in its beauty, this is the perfect post-bedtime listening.
Austin, TX psych/math rockers BOYFRNDZ are back with their second full-length record Breeder. Self-produced by the band and engineered/mixed by Erik Wofford (Maserati, The Black Angels, White Denim), Breeder is a blast of emotion that defies all expectations and shows a band that can lead us to an intense and emotional progressive/math/ psychedelic rock journey. The reverb soaked vocals mixed with the swirling guitar melodies gives their sound the perfect rhythmic complexity. If you guys are into space/celestial post-rock with that The Mars Volta or Sigur Rós ethereal beauty twist, this will be the perfect soundtrack for the rest of the year. Absolutely stunning!
A band that uses the name Breton inspired in the French surrealist writer Andre Breton deserves automatically attention, but in this case the music and conceptual idea come together in some sort of fresh and quality artistic work. Breton is a British electronic band from London and War Room Stories is their second album. This album does not follow the traditional idea of electronic beats and samples... This is much more than that. Of course they do exist but they also mix electro samplers with hip hop beats transforming the music into some kind of epic and rich electronic work. War Room Stories is all about that. “Got Well Soon”, the fourth track is the perfect example of their awesomeness.
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DAVID BOWES
Ipecac, Wine and Saxophone...
FAUSTO CASAIS
The Mars Volta, Tera Melos, Tame Impala
ANA F.CARVALHO
Portishead, Citizens, Depeche Mode
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BUL BUL Hirn Fein Hacken
C.O.L.L.E.C.T.R.E.S.S. Mondegreen Self-Released (2014)
Sony Music (2014)
The avant-garde trio from Austria has in Hirn Fein Hacken a (you should investigate to know his meaning) derived register of an approximate aesthetics to the Ipecap nucleus (Zu serves as better example). There is a universal language and a local language, together in an album that explores in a casual way noise and his progression in music, some long (“Kanzla” and “Quicksand”), but effective. Heaviness in accelerated rhythms and nervous guitars are the most common thing in an album that sonically presents several rails used already previously. The fact that a lot of what they sing is in a language heard by few, it is a good exercise to decode what it’s said in these themes which seems to challenge on an instrumental level the listener, to maintain in an alert state for change along 10 tracks.
A beautiful and alluring collection of melodic and experimental classical music from a based UK talented collective. Coined by Sylvia Wright in an essay in Harper’s Magazine in Nov 1954, a Mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as 7 result of a near homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning. In this record, each song title represents the sounds and locations that inform each particular piece of music, where they deliver a slow burning atmospheric beast full of romanticism and melancholy. The whole album is alive with sounds, footsteps and creaking doors, bicycle wheel clicks and whispers all nestling themselves between delightful string arrangements, this is art in their purest form.
Pesar o Sol is the second album from Capitão Fausto, a pop-rock progressive band from Portugal. Their first album Gazela from 2011 had a considerable success and the expectations were definitely high. Well, Pesar o Sol it’s more focused in space sounds, into some sort of space prog-rock. Actually, there is nothing creative and innovative in this album. Except for the songs “Ideias”, “Maneiras Más” and “Lameira”, the last and the longest song and probably the best song of the record, there is no big impact when you listen to the whole album. All together, Capitão Fausto is an interesting project but this album does not introduce anything new, doesn’t thrill. It’s not cold or hot... It’s warm prog-rock.
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Exile on Mainstream (2014)
RUI CORREIA
Zu, Shellac, Future of The Left
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Experimental Classical Music...
CAPITÃO FAUSTO Pesar o Sol
FAUSTO CASAIS
ANA F.CARVALHO
Tame Impala, Beach Boys, Beatles