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There is a wonderful new wave of slow and melancholy music going on lately, that seems not the least interested in modernity or chart-succes and leads a kind of happily anonimous existense. Different acts, from Songs: Ohia to Godspeed You Black Emperor!. Sophia wanders around in between these two extremes, but is, despite their orchestral sound, essentially song-based. Like Songs: Ohia, Sophia does its thing and, on De Nachten at least, does that in the vicinity of simple recording equipment. No fancy producers, no complex layers of effects and live recording (two shows in The Netherlands and Belgium). Using almost only acoustical instruments (including a string-quartet), Sophia gives its slow and very melancholy songs a timeless seashanty-quality, and great intimacy. Certainly "The Sea", which opens the album, is a musically and lyrically very simple effort, but also a very effective one. This continues almost the entire album through, and takes the listener on a seemingly easy and quiet, but actually deep and dangerous sea. Whoever is not prepared to go all the way (because of fear or boredom, which is, in the case of Sophia, the same), won't hear John Lennon's "Jealous Guy" as though it is sung by Mick Jagger, and the last song in which Sophia is all of a sudden a dark psychedelic rock band.
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