Sello: Prophecy Productions Formato: CD, Album País: Germany Fecha: 10 Feb 2012 Estilo: Post Rock, Indie Rock, Heavy Metal, Shoegaze
An elegiac and sublime album of enraptured beauty
On their second album, “Ariettes Oubliées…”, Les Discrets appear significantly matured in many aspects. Teyssier’s artistic vision is clearer than ever, and his vocal performance shows a big progression in comparison to past recordings. Winterhalter contributes arguably the best and most diverse drum performance of his carreer, and the sensitive, poetic lyrics of Audrey Hadorn add a further dimension to the album. The album’s tenor is more severe, yet the bittersweet melancholy and almost painful yearning – both characteristic of the debut album, “Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées” – here they are more moving than before. “Ariettes…” is an elegiac and sublime album of enraptured beauty that develops Les Discrets’ characteristic style in the hybridization of Post-Rock, Doom Metal, and Shoegaze convincingly in every element, to every extent,and which will cement the band’s status as a cornerstone of a new, thrilling music genre.
Hailing from Gothenburg, Sweden comes sludge doom quartet Walk Through Fire. “Drawling grooves and long, drawn out tones. There is a heavy element of drone doom mixed into the sludge here and the bands opening track more than capably demonstrates the atmospheric qualities and the crushing power of a band who knows how to do this right. Indeed, this eighty minute long epic is definitely one for taking its time but its feedback drenched tones never get old… at times the band display their softer, if not more ominous nature with a bout of colder and somehow harsher tones providing temperance for usual forceful nature of the band. For the most part though this album lives within an ocean of crackling bass, reverb laden atmospherics agonised melodies, a true opus of monstrous carnage wreaking chaos!”