- Sat May 02, 2015 12:20 pm
#63868
@ Jimmy: Picked this up fairly cheaply in my local on 180 pink vinyl. While I'm not a huge BJM fan I do like Anton's approach to music and genre-mining, in particular his psych/ shoegaze stuff - although this one is probably more low-key than I was expecting from him. It's very spare in places, with simple instrumentation and nicely layered sounds, while in others it's dense and doom-laden, although it maybe lacks the one or two big hooks that I really wanted it to pull out....
Saying that there are some really nice moments if you're a fan of atmospheric / evocative mood music. The female vocals on the doomy Soko and Argento tracks for example really help to colour the album, and are almost in Squrl / Only Lovers territory. And particularly towards the end of the record, spectral keyboards and lovely ensemble-playing offer some light counterpoints to the encroaching darkness, as a motif finally makes itself heard:
[video]http://youtu.be/NqCUh5Ajg3s[/video]
Best track for me though is the stately, almost groove-driven, but reassuringly downbeat 'Elle s'echappe'. Not sure what kind of film Anton was imagining, but I assume it was set on a wet Wednesday afternoon, possibly in Cherbourg...
[video]http://youtu.be/TjtpvJOiu30[/video][
Saying that there are some really nice moments if you're a fan of atmospheric / evocative mood music. The female vocals on the doomy Soko and Argento tracks for example really help to colour the album, and are almost in Squrl / Only Lovers territory. And particularly towards the end of the record, spectral keyboards and lovely ensemble-playing offer some light counterpoints to the encroaching darkness, as a motif finally makes itself heard:
[video]http://youtu.be/NqCUh5Ajg3s[/video]
Best track for me though is the stately, almost groove-driven, but reassuringly downbeat 'Elle s'echappe'. Not sure what kind of film Anton was imagining, but I assume it was set on a wet Wednesday afternoon, possibly in Cherbourg...
[video]http://youtu.be/TjtpvJOiu30[/video][
