Violent Dreams - Fall (2021)

Violent Dreams is a moniker of Matt Suter, a London-based artist mostly inspired by the dreamy music genres of the last couple of decades. I know him from 2017's Scared of the Dark and I'm so glad that the new EP, Fall, is as good, as moody and as worth listening to.

Although the name of the project is the same as one of the iconic songs by Crystal Castles, the music here couldn't be more different. It is subtle and dreamy, sounding like Fireflies or Ruby Haunt with all of their love towards slow ballads kept in the intimate atmosphere that is warm, nostalgic and simply beautiful. No wonder that the album is called after the moodiest of seasons, with the fittingly coloured cover art which together with the music makes one, utterly nostalgic whole. The songs are not super melodic but they were not supposed to either; instead, the artist uses repetitive phrases that create the most psychedelic and ethereal parts (like the finish of Holy Ghost). It's really difficult to describe how delicate the vocals and the noisy backgrounds are: if music was matter, Violent Dreams would be spider web at most.

Fall  costs whatever you want to pay.

Violent Dreams - Scared of the Dark (2017)

Check: Holy Ghost

Country: UK

Genre: dreamy slowcore

Label: Altered States

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Violent Dreams - Scared of the Dark (2017) EN

Violent Dreams, Liverpool based project, is supposed to be using violent sounds to express beauty. It's one of the projects whose name says absolutely everything. It is both loud and dreamy, just like during a downpour in Merseyside.

Violent Dreams should be classified as lo-fi music in which the quality of sound is not as important as the overall atmosphere. Personally, I think that lo-fi projects have to be twice as good to catch my attention as they can't rely only on the pleasure from listening to perfect sounds.So the fact that the Englishmen are on this blog now says a lot.

And they had to be here because this is the place for sad and melancholic albums as this one. As if there is a song about romance, it is also about depression ("Pieces"), if there's a song about broken heart, it's also about hope ("Laura") and finally, if there's one about fear, it is also about love ("Scared of the Dark").

"Scared of the Dark" is available for pay what you want.

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Violent Dreams - Scared of the Dark (2017) PL

Violent Dreams, projekt z Liverpoolu, w założeniu używający gwałtownych dźwięków by wyrazić piękno. Jest też jednym z tych projektów, których nazwa mówi absolutnie wszystko, co trzeba wiedzieć. Jest głośno i onirycznie, tak jak w czasie liverpoolskiej ulewy.

Violent Dreams bezsprzecznie zakwalifikować można do nurtu lo-fi, gdzie jakość dźwięków ustępuje ważności nastrojowi. Dla mnie projekty lo-fi'owe muszą być szczególnie dobre, bo nie mogą nadrabiać samą przyjemnością ze słuchania perfekcyjnych dźwięków. Tak więc sam fakt, że Anglicy się na blog znaleźli świadczy o nich jak najlepiej.

A znaleźć się musieli bo jest to miejsce dla tak smutnych i melancholijnych płyt. Bo jeśli jest tu piosenka o romansie to jest też o depresji ("Pieces"), jeśli jest o zranionym sercu to jest też o nadziei ("Laura") i w końcu jeśli jest o strachu to również o miłości ("Scared of the Dark").

"Scared of the Dark" można mieć za płać ile chcesz.

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