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12.10.08 |
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Pygmy Lush |
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mount hope - lp/cd |
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adagio 830
lovitt |
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Listening to Pygmy Lush’s latest album makes it hard to believe that the band emerged from some of the most uncompromising east coast hardcore-acts, Pg. 99 and Majority Rule and is still associated with the post-hardcore luminaries Haram. Since the musicians traded their electric for acoustic guitars, learned to sing and to play their instruments properly, they managed to produce one of this year’s most delightful surprises: an album full of folky, dark and ethereal waltzes which brings together musical confidence, grown-up serenity and emotional sensibility. Over the course of ten songs, the singer’s husky voice croons, the guitars gently jingle, the bass buzzes and some occasionally thrown in drones hum. One half of the album’s songs - like the opener „asphalt“ or „frozen man“ - stun with crisp and clear acoustic melody and intense vocals which unfold at a leisurely pace to wrap the listener in warm melancholia. Another handful of dark and sombre tunes – like “red room blues” - foils these bright folk pop songs and concentrate on a more sparse instrumentation and psychedelic drones at a slower pace, evoking despair and disillusion. These emotions are carried on by the simple but significant lyrics which vary the topics of loss, emptiness, boredom and death. Similar to contemporaries Six Organs of Admittance as well as classics like Nick Drake, Pygmy Lush revitalize traditional folk styles by modern experimentalism to find an easy but effective way to get their message across. [phillip]
www.myspace.com/PygmyLush
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