Review:
'HOLY MOTORS'
'Slow Sundown'
- Label: 'Wharf Cat Records'
- Genre: 'Indie'
- Release Date: '9th March 2018'
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Our Rating:
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Hearing of an Estonian band playing cowboy ballads has vague echoes of Aki Kaurismaki's 'Leningrad Cowboys Go America' but this is no fiction and no joke.
The five-piece (four guys and one gal) has three guitarists so the twang effect is a strong element in these eight sleepy Shoegaze-tinged songs.
It's slow and dreamy in a style not a million miles from Cigarettes After Sex.
The lyrics to Honeymooning establish the lonesome mood: "Behind the gloom we're drowning in our own tears. I cannot hold myself. On our honeymoon where were you?".
The shimmering guitars on Signs have a hazy, disorientating effect as Eliann Tulve's sultry vocals capture and fix the spectral mood.
Ghost Of Heart is a perfect title and although I have no idea what Sleeprydr means I can make a fair guess after hearing this absorbing album.
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author: Martin Raybould
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