Gregor Samsa - 55:12
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Artist: Gregor SamsaEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-04-04
Music Label: Kora Records
Soundtracks:
- Makeshift Shelters
- Even Numbers
- What I Can Manage
- Loud And Clear
- These Point Balance
- Young And Old
- We'll Lean That Way Forever
- Lessening
Free Music Notes for 55:12
Free Music Review: dreamy and dreary, lovely and secretly dark and foreboding
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm not sure what message is sent by naming your band Gregor Samsa, but judging from this, the first proper full length from these Virginia post-math-mope rockers, it could be as simple and obvious as 'metamorphosis'. Each track here is a lush, lugubrious crawl, slithery and subtle, dark reverbed chords drift in wide open spaces, a blurry druggy soundscape, the drums sort of creep along WAY back in the background, a distant thud, a simple pulse, ethereal female vocals drift soft and angelic, sometimes hovering sweetly beside the whispery croon of her male foil, but most of the tracks shift at some point, build into a darkly brooding wave of thick guitars and keening melodies.
But this isn't your typical post rock, quiet soft / loud heavy thing, as GS never really get heavy. Instead they deftly ratchet up the emotion, choosing to not stomp on the fuzz box, but instead to quietly maneuver the music into a much more intense space. It's this intensity that manages to convey more pathos than a distorted guitar ever could in this context. This is dreamy and dreary, lovely and secretly dark and foreboding, with occasional swells of thick guitar, keening melody and a brooding malevolence, like Low with Mogwai tendencies, or drifting on a black, musical moonlit sea, slow and serene and absolutely breathtaking.
Packaged in a gorgeous letterpressed thick cardstock sleeve, with a silver inked Japanese style obi. Wow!
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