Leírás
Alternative, Post Hardcore, Indie Rock, Math Rock, Progressive Rock, CD, 2024.
A Brit együttes 2024-es stúdió lemeze.
Perfect if you own any car made between 2000 & 2008.
Blue Garden is the fifth album from Delta Sleep, and advances the British math rockers’ ability to convey real-world strife with their unreal musicality. The band wrote the record entirely in the studio, welcomed sampling and synths into their bewildering riffs, and lyrics that painfully describe Devin Yüceil’s torture at seeing, but being unable to stop, the humanitarian crisis in Palestine.
The thing that humanity clings to is hope. In the darkness, light will prevail. In uncertain times, prosperity will ultimately endure: without it, there is simply nothing. On ‘Blue Garden’, Delta Sleep’s 4th studio album, out 11th October on Sofa Boy Records & Wax Bodega (US), the band find themselves digging beneath the overwhelming darkness of the world to find just a glimmer of light — tying in similar themes across their expansive back catalogue to become what is perhaps their heaviest record to date.
‘Blue Garden’ was recorded at the tail end of 2023 at Daft Studios in Belgium with Mark Roberts (Black Peaks, Toska, The Physics House Band) after a year of huge tours across America, Asia and Australia. Where previous albums came together quickly, with all four members entering the studio armed with songs demoed, tracked and recorded live, this time the band started with a completely blank page.
Throughout, Delta Sleep weave their way through moments of dark and light, interlaced with a sweeping ambience and complex tempos that are inspired by punk, indie and electronic influences yet reminiscent of the math-rock home they belong to. In true Delta Sleep fashion it’s structures and textures are moulded to their sound — on ‘Figure In The Dark’ it’s the crashing drums juxtaposed with warm harmonies that make it an emotionally purging listen, while the R&B infused rhythms in ‘The Distance’ helps to push this record past the boundaries of anything they have done before. On ‘Sunchaser’ the mood is brought to a heightened crescendo as gorgeous guitar melodies garner a sense of melancholic longing before making way for a chorus that dazzles to life like a beacon of hope.
Paired with the stunning album artwork by Daniele Castellano, who used ideas of shadow in 80s fantasy films and art like The Neverending Story and Peter Pan as a catalyst to capture how world events are casting a shadow of depression, terror and helplessness over us all; and the companion video to album opener ‘Dawn’, which is a beautiful video highlighting the plight of the Palestinian people while showcasing their history and humanity, puts ‘Blue Garden’ into real life perspective.
Delta Sleep are: Devin Yuceil, Glen Hodgson, Dave Jackson and Blake Mostyn.
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Felvételek:
1. Dawn 03:11
2. Slow Burn 04:24
3. The Distance 04:04
4. Toe Stepper 04:34
5. (light) 00:46
6. Glow 05:22
7. Illuminator 03:46
8. Figure in the Dark 04:45
9. Sl_ck_rs 03:02
10. (night) 00:38
11. A Casa 04:01
12. Sunchaser 04:15
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