AVAILABLE AGAIN!!! Music and words come together as a powerful, soporific and hypnogogic concoction, especially the album's stunning centerpiece, "A Hymn to Sulphur," which marries CLODAGH SIMONDS and LAURA SHEERAN’s sea-drenched vocals with a tidal rhythm of e-bowed guitar, strings, and piano. An intermittent piano pulse played on the higher notes sounds like a submarine's sonar, completing the oceanic setting. On the violin and cello respectively, CORA VENUS LUNNY and JULIA play with a power and grace that illuminates the other elements of the song, highlighting and accentuating the vocals in particular. Short instrumental pieces punctuate the rest of the album, the touch of MICHAEL BEGG and COLIN POTTER apparent but not heavy. Boundaries within the music are blurred; instruments seep into each other and form new, striking shapes. Other previous FOVEA HEX collaborators reappear throughout the album, BRIAN ENO and FABRIZIO PALUMBO both being particularly noteworthy for their ethereal electronics and guitar respectively.
CD $20.50
10/23/2012