(((S))) – «Ghost» album review
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Listening of music is the kind of activities akin to take cocktails. It often appears as if beverage carries notes of some accustomed things, but in the same time sensations which it gives in whole can’t be given by it’s components separately.
It happens that it is necessary to taste the music. Some part of music may get stuck in the perception and haunts until you mark out it, and only then you get the real taste of that music, and feeling of delight appears.
Album «Ghosts» by the musical project (((S))) consist of 11 tracks, which possess the marvelously solid general sound’s atmosphere, which allows perceiving it at one breath. Unhurried but quite enough dynamic melodies immerse deeply in the mood of conciliative estrangement and quietism. Themes of hidden passions burning out the soul, nonmutual love and heart’s desires run through all the album, and the track’s order form some kind of item’s dynamic. Songs take us from anguish of concealed feelings in «In the Shadow of a shadow» and «Mesmerized» through theme of fall and collapse – there is necessary to mention «Help», Beatles’ song cover which in (((S))) performance completely new sound and perfectly blend with album’s atmosphere, – to the extinction of the zest for life and to the calm spleen in « When the well runs dry» and «Dying». Nevertheless this music isn’t depressive, it’s as dark and wistful as it needs to create unsteady ghostly and, very likely, pleasing sense of light melancholy.
«Ghosts» is a compound of Cure like post-punk guitar parts and quite Pink Floyd manner of performance, rhythmic drums, atmospheric bass and some synt elements which bring finishing strokes in compositions. Bass deserves particular consideration, because its full-fledged sound is a substrate upon which guitar accords act and superimposes music humor on listener. It is just the element without catching that all sound’s profundity can’t be perceived.
In the total enigmatic (((S))) music project’s album «Ghosts» is an excellent musical beverage which from the first sip wins favour, and with each next more and more discovers its rich flavour. It’s a cold sound which conciliates and gives comfort. It’s atmospheric music which is pleasant to listen to. Just taste it!
Nikolay ‘Tacitus’ Polyakov
Grave Jibes Fanzine
