Throughout the album, each instrument provides a complimenting support for the rest of the band with an air of modesty, yet little variations as the songs progress make all parts fascinating to focus on individually. But regardless of which genre camp the moment belongs to, the music is so lushly and consistently layered that not a second is spent out of interest for the listener. The lighter shoegaze parts of 'Ujubasajuba' tend to have meandering guitars and synthesizer melodies panned in each ear, creating an ethereal atmosphere to counter the heavy and imposing post rock each song develops into 'Swarm' displays a grand crescendo through unrelenting snare drum rolls and crushing bass drums to create a maddening sense of anticipation. Kairon IRSE! invoke chaos as much as they create order in the heavier elements of the album, where a seemingly thrashing performance reveals itself to be quite restrained and controlled - the explosive end of 'Rulons', where the frantic melts into the serene seamlessly, is an excellent example which shows this. 'Ujubasajuba' integrates the band's previous dabbling into shoegaze fully to create a post-rock sound almost definitive to them alone, and it is this which has helped Kairon IRSE! to create an album which stands out from the crowd.Īlthough 'Ujubasajuba' throws you in the deep end with the relentlessly heavy 'Valorians', most songs tend to share similar structures which shifts between gentle psychedelica and heavy instrumental or, in the case of 'Amsterdam', vocal onslaughts. Kairon IRSE! returned in 2014 with their sophomore effort which rocked the boat in both the post rock and shoegaze worlds. The rest is filler, pop ballads camouflaged like prog-rock ( Welcome Blue Valkyrie) and amateurish jamming.Review Summary: If the shoegaze fits, wear it The album has one good song, that is one of the best of their career,Īltair Descends, evoking the dreamy Pink Floyd of the early days. Polysomn (2020) embraces a more electronic and sleeker sound. Porphyrogennetos (11:41) is a prog-rock suite in search of a killer melody, but, not finding it, instead ends with screaming guitars and pounding drums that any child could do. (the instrumental coda of this piece is perhaps the highlight of the album). That refrain that surfaces four minutes into it is a trivial folk-rock tune Sinister Waters I (12:19) begins with a litany that sounds likeĪnd so does the synth-driven opening theme of The pop temptation is obvious on Ruination (2017). Unfortunately, the album ends with the lame pop tune and the amateurish Visible in Tzar Morei (9:44), but the "loud" isĮlectric Prunes, and the tone is grandiose if not exuberant. The post-rock aesthetic of alternating loud and soft sections is still (somehow evoking the vision of a punk-ish version of Thundering guitar distortion and jazzy saxophone that goes insane That is not trivial, although not groundbreaking either,Īnd Rulons (8:26), possibly the highlight, is an explosive mix of Swarm (9:40) soars to a level of noise (mixed to a folkish undercurrent) (drummer Johannes Kohal and bassist/vocalist Dmitry Melet),Īnd the poppy Amsterdam (7:17) is dangerously similar to laid-back middle-of-the-road prog-pop of the 1970s ( Toto, Boston and the likes), Twin-guitar attack of Lasse Luhta and Niko Lehdontie, The Defect in that one is Bleach/ We're Hunting Wolverines (2011), The Defect in that one is Bleach/ We're Hunting Wolverines (2011), 5/10ĭebuted with the immature hybrid of post-rock and dream-pop of ( Copyright © 2020 Piero Scaruffi | Terms of Use) Kairon Irse: biography, discography, review, ratings
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