Country: Sweden
Genre(s): Instrumental Psychedelic, Krautrock
Label: Blackest Ever Black - BEB 070
Format: vinyl, digital
Release date: November 23, 2018 (vinyl), January 18, 2019 (digital)
Tracklist:
1. Sinister (3:35)
2. The Middle Section (3:40)
3. Aimless Cruising (2:42)
4. Closures (4:12)
5. Valley Of Ashes (2:44)
6. Palladium (5:28)
7. Enter Silence (4:07)
8. No Means To Remain (3:31)
9. Too Cold For Your Eyes (4:58)
10. Everything Coagulates (2:53)
11. Earthbound (3:02)
12. Vanishing Point (7:33)
Total Time 48:25
Line-up:
Lanchy Orre - guitar, bass
Jonas Tiljander - keyboards, drums
Description/Reviews:
Once again the Uppsala multi-instrumentalists combine elements of trogged-out psychedelic rock with a deadly serious Arctic minimalism and weeping modal improvisations that owe more to the outer limits of jazz and burnt-out free music from Japan. It’s connoisseur’s space music, grown-up and grievously honed; outwardly inclined towards the epic but studded with details that reward attention and introspection.
There’s always been a strong undercurrent of sadness animating Bremen’s work, and that existential burden is present and correct on Enter Silence, culminating in the all-out cosmic anguish of ‘Palladium’. Even ‘The Middle Section’, whose ragged chords are nothing if not the sound of optimism and defiance, sounds like it’s navigating some kind of unsayable trauma. But this band has always allowed plenty of room for bonehead slash-and-burn as well: see here especially the Stoogeian/39 Clocks-ish rock’n’roll of ‘Aimless Cruising’ and the pulpy quasi-cinematic tension of ‘Sinister’, or the brilliant ‘Too Cold For Your Eyes’, a blast of voidal motorik that sounds like a cranked-up Clean.
Media/Samples
Bandcamp
Links:
Progarchives