Anthems For Odyssey - Come Blister The Sea EP
March 30th 2007 16:58
Anthems For Odyssey – Come Blister The Sea EP
Though their aesthetic may be somewhat overwrought, the aptly-monikered Anthems For Odyssey create the kind of thrilling, pulsing soundscapes that My Bloody Valentine would have done had they hung out with their more up-tempo contemporaries. The multi-faceted clatter of 'Song For Sveta' is the equal of anything on Silversun Pickups' record from last year that was so heralded, but with a more considered, less bombastic bent to it. This is clearly a thoughtful approach to a sound that can so often become slapdash.
It's the minute changes in texture that impress the most. It seems that every band we see nowadays professing to have a knowledge of 'walls of noise' merely has one guitarist with a pedal board as a penis substitute, but AFO actually understand the value of tiny timbral shifts, the effectiveness of holding back that one moment longer. Case in point is the bob-bobbing bass intro of 'Goodnight Britain', leading us towards something altogether more cheerful than the dark cod-reggae of that supersedes it. This is clever music with its eyes firmly on the listener, separating them from shoegazer revivalists elsewhere.
Go here for hearing.
Though their aesthetic may be somewhat overwrought, the aptly-monikered Anthems For Odyssey create the kind of thrilling, pulsing soundscapes that My Bloody Valentine would have done had they hung out with their more up-tempo contemporaries. The multi-faceted clatter of 'Song For Sveta' is the equal of anything on Silversun Pickups' record from last year that was so heralded, but with a more considered, less bombastic bent to it. This is clearly a thoughtful approach to a sound that can so often become slapdash.
It's the minute changes in texture that impress the most. It seems that every band we see nowadays professing to have a knowledge of 'walls of noise' merely has one guitarist with a pedal board as a penis substitute, but AFO actually understand the value of tiny timbral shifts, the effectiveness of holding back that one moment longer. Case in point is the bob-bobbing bass intro of 'Goodnight Britain', leading us towards something altogether more cheerful than the dark cod-reggae of that supersedes it. This is clever music with its eyes firmly on the listener, separating them from shoegazer revivalists elsewhere.
Go here for hearing.
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