Spirit (豆瓣)

表演者: Apse
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 2006-11-14
出版者: Acuarela (Red100)
唱片数: 1
条形码: 8426946903168

豆瓣评分

8.5

41人评价

5星

37.0%
4星

51.9%
3星

11.1%
2星

0.0%
1星

0.0%

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　　Keep your eyes and ears open when the Spanish Acuarela Records releases albums from an American band, because these nice folks have made an excellent choice throughout the years, and yet again, they manage to surprise me with the release of this debut full length by this quintet with residence between Boston and New York. Apse is the name of the band, and honestly I had never... (展开全部) 　　Keep your eyes and ears open when the Spanish Acuarela Records releases albums from an American band, because these nice folks have made an excellent choice throughout the years, and yet again, they manage to surprise me with the release of this debut full length by this quintet with residence between Boston and New York. Apse is the name of the band, and honestly I had never heard of them before, but this record has been stuck on my iPod for quite some weeks now. Apse has already released some fairly unnoticed EP's before, and after checking them out I can understand that these records were left unnoticed, because they don't even reach the heels of the sheer quality of Spirit.
　　It is kind of hard to describe the music of Apse. Surely, their influences reach from post rock over post punk and gothic to ambient music, but the end result is something quite unique and sounding as if it was recorded with a rope around the neck. The album opens with a short soundscape, but when the real opener From The North starts, you're sucked into the dark world of Apse. From The North is a song that grows gently from a percussive slow core song with whispered vocals on top of each other into a sonic whirlwind of guitars and synths, and sounds as if Godspeed You Black Emperor has finally found a way out of their anaemia from the last years. The production is just perfect, and you can almost hear how the five musicians are torturing their instruments. Legions starts off with organs and soft lalala's, strange noises of footsteps in the background, threatening and reminding of the old glory of Dead Can Dance, until in the middle of the song again this tribal percussion comes thundering in.
　　It is without any doubt the drums, percussion and the bass that play the leading role on this album. In certain parts they even reminded me of The Cure's Pornography-era: tribal, hard, inventive but oh so dark. Listen how in the middle part of The Crowned only the drums keep playing, and you'll catch my drift. Vocals are eerie and are floating somewhere between the pathos of Sigur Rós and the coldness of Robert Smith, and the guitars know their place and don't try to fill all the space like for instance Explosions In The Sky does too much on their last, rather weak, effort. Blackwood Gates for instance is an ill-omened song driven by a kind of dubby bass and imaginative drumming, with distorted vocals and whispers on top, and after a sudden break one would expect the guitars to come into full force, but Apse manages to avoid the pitfall of so many clichés, and the song drifts away like the moon disappears behind clouds.
　　Cloudy, grey, and rainy weather is a perfect setting for listening to Spirit. It probably won't make you feel any better, but you'll have had a mind-blowing musical experience. Only the title song that concludes this album drifts a little too long on just noises and is less of a song, but don't let that critical remark stop you from having a listen, and I can only recommend using headphones to discover the full richness of this music. Too bad that Acuarela released this album on the brink of a new year - I'm sure Apse could have deserved its place into our own Semtex top of 2006 had we only discovered it a little earlier.