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CULT OF YOUTH - Filthy Plumage In An Open Sea! |
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 06:14 |
Artist: Cult Of YouthTitle: Filthy Plumage In An Open Sea!Format: 12"Label: Avant! [ avant {dot} records {at} gmail {dot} com ] Rated:   |
| After a couple of 7"s, an LP and two CDr singles, Sean Ragon is back with a new Cult Of Youth release titled FILTHY PLUMAGE IN AN OPEN SEA! I have to admit that I didn't know them and with this release Avant! is confirming as one of the most interesting and innovative Italian alternative music labels. With neo-folk is easy to track down the influences of that music style, because most of the bands refer somewhat to Death In June, but with Cult Of Youth things get tough, because, simplifying things, it's like Sean started to be influenced by Douglas Pearce starting from Crisis. The first five tracks of this MLP sound like acoustic songs of revolt, just like Crisis had acoustic guitars. Since with the opening "Lace up your boots", Sean is playing his guitar as he was possessed, crying out loud his rage, fear and all the animal feelings a man can feel. Minimal arrangements made of strings, keyboards and synth percussions, enrich the songs giving to the songs a great atmosphere. "Bottomed out", the sixth and closing tune, is a bit different as it's a mid tempo r'n'r ballad (there's also a guitar solo), really passionate. On the note I read that this is the last record Sean recorded as a solo artist, because starting from the next one, the people who play with him live will play also in studio. Watch out for The Cult Of Youth, they are out for blood! |
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Monday, 26 July 2010 12:16 |
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| Six years after its debut album "Reflejos del Sol" released by Divine Comedy, Der Arbeiter is back with a new album inspired and dedicated to the Cilean writer Miguel Serrano. HOZWEGE contains ten songs in balance from neo-folk with Mediterranean influences (check the melodies used for the acoustic guitar parts) and electronic arrangements. This musical blend along with the melancholic atmospheres create a cinematic effect where light industrial ambient martialism influences meet electronic folk and acoustic passionate instrumentals. Along with nine original songs, you'll find "Wo Die Wilden Kerle Wohnen ", originally wrote by Gerhard Hallstatt (of Allerseelen) for the same title 7" compilation ("Where The Brutes Dwell" is an ancient Germanic fairy tale and on that 7" different bands recorded their musical version of it). Love and despair find a new meaning following the Serrano's concept of "Minne" ("a love at once illicit and morally elevating, passionate and disciplined, humiliating and exalting, human and transcendent") and Der Arbeiter made of its music the carrier of these emotions. |
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Saturday, 24 July 2010 07:50 |
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| If I'm not wrong this is the first remix release that Punch Records ever released and I think that this is another sign of the change that Tairy started with the CD compilation released back in 2008. Taken from the latest Mt. Sims album released always on Punch Records, the original version "Fragile breaks fragile" opens the A side of this limited to 300 copies colored 12" and it serves as reference point for whom didn't purchase the album, to understand what kind of de-construction did the remixers. Christopher Kah, starts immediately reducing to the bone the same song focusing on few analog synth sounds and on obsessive rhythms. Magas, who released recently "Violent arp" for PUnch, picked up "Fall back" and gave to it the "Violent arp" treatment keeping guitars and vocals from the original tune and substituting bass lines and drum sounds with dirty distorted synthetic ones. Side B opens with the first out of three versions of "Unwound". Adriano Canzian created a great electro/techno blast with distortions and hard beats. Crossover dilated the atmosphere creating a mid tempo menace made of stops and go, reverb... almost a dub electro version. Equitant close the EP with their "Die geistermaschine remix" of the song, they kept the original structure (they only slowed it down) and gave to it a seducing electro flavor. This is another fine release by Punch Records! |
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