Drowned Session - Horses EP
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| Drowned Session - Horses EP |
Release Date: 24th March 2014
Ready for a bit of dark folk rock
music all the way from Copenhagen? I thought so. Four piece Drowned Session are
ready to present their new EP and proceedings get underway with the optimistically
named 'Everything Slowly Disappears', a late night, cigarette smoke infused
piece of piano focused music that even Nick Drake or Leonard Cohen might baulk
at for being a little on the morose side of things. 'Stalingrad' is up next and
could easily be the follow up to Aqua's 'Barbie Girl'....if Aqua had spent the
period following their success reading bleak, historical literature and
deciding on a change of direction to create the kind of music you would expect
to hear as the apocalypse inevitably approaches along the horizon.
Continuing the upbeat theme,
'Horses, Despair' makes use of some subtle instrumentation and an almost
military rhythm mixed with a wild west feel to create the perfect foil for the
dead eyed, cold blooded vocals that snarl out of the speakers. 'Evening Waltz'
should, on the face of it, be a more chirpy sounding tune, but the subdued
opening melody and sparse instrumentation make this more of a death dance in
Hell's ballroom. This five track EP finishes up with 'The Goddess', an epic of
over five minutes that appeals to my love of the darker side of music and takes
its time to reveal its true self like a demonic creature slowly emerging from
the shadows. The fact that Drowned Session can make a banjo sound like an
approaching axe murderer and every drum beat sound like the footsteps of a mass
murderer is a talent, undeniably, but if I was one of their parents I might
encourage them to take up Tennis or Badminton as well just to balance that
personality out a bit.....just in case.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/DrownedSession