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Track Listings
| 1. The question is complete |
| 2. Post-tour, pre-judgement |
| 3. Egypt |
| 4. Harter |
| 5. Zionist timing |
| 6. Sunday 3:52 |
| 7. Shouting for Joey |
| 8. A Meaningful existence |
| 9. Descending |
| 10. Will you still find me? |
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This is not an easy record to appreciate on first listen. The contrasts are stark and this will take a little perseverence. From the opening shrapnel of syncopation that forms "The Question Is Complete" and the organ roll of "Post Tour..." it is clear that here are a band oiling the machinery of powerful soundscapes with more creative juices than many of today's experimentalists could dream to distill. The end product is refined, reflecting the deep emotions of those who created it. Unlike much of the arthouse chic which it appears to be cool to like, these are songs that will buzz around your head relentlessly at a high degree of decibels. This is music to smash things to and, yet, music to cling onto in the longest and loneliest hours of the night.
Results like this have involved seaping in the broadest of musical appreciation for years of fermentation to produce a pure sound. A sound that will sooth you into it's beauty only to wake you up with such brutality and blistering swathes of distortion that your ears ring for days.
This is a truley original record. There is so much beauty and fragility in Craig B's delivery of atmospheric epics such as "Hatred" and "Descending". Songs that ache with the conviction of deep soul searching for answers to life itself. The filmscore effects and arrangements of these tracks and "Sunday 3.52" provide the shade to the glow of the onslaught and cathartic screams that accompany "Zionist Timing" and "Shouting for Joey". A truely freeing album.
If you're going to buy one record speculatively this year - make it this one. Only time will tell whether this ever receives the appreciation of the wider music loving populus or whether, like so many gems before it, it is lost in a snowstorm of the fallout from the next big scene. Forget the difficult third album, the challenge could simply lie in a follow up to this!
To say Aereogramme cannot be pigeonholed is an understatement. Their music ranges from soulful acoustic introspection (see the wonderful "Descending") to carthartic, blood boiling anger ("shouting for Joey").
Unbelievably however it works perfectly.
The main conclusion to be drawn though is that this is an album which, although has individually fantastic songs, is certainly more than the sum of it's parts. This is no slur on Craig B and company, it is just to say that this is an album that must be listened to and judged as a whole entity. There is a story to be told, a story of love found and faith lost, a story of anger and regret... a story in white.
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