Just some months ago Palm Desert from Wroclaw/Poland
sparked me with their album Rotten Village Sessions and
now they come up with a new release, an EP called Adayoff. Running the risk of spoiling the bottom line, I say this
release is something special. It belongs into this category of music I actually
don’t want to write or talk about, but I’d rather just say: “Listen to it”,
because the essential points about it can’t be described by words
appropriately. It’s a case of either you get what’s going on here, or you
don’t.
I could, of course, tell you that the EP comprises six
songs of exquisite stoner rock and its overall runtime is just short of 30
minutes.
I could tell you that the opener Leave me alone begins with a lot of blues feel put into warm fuzzy
guitar sounds, heads into a heavy, stormy rock jam to find its way back to the
blues again.
The second track End
of the certain is a folky acoustic instrumental, demonstrating how
beautiful simplicity can be, with a strong melody and an unboastful but
effective instrumentation. This is the
only song that is not drenched in fuzz, but don’t worry, the fuzz comes back
immediately with the next song Among the
stones, together with a driving rhythm ploughing its groove through fuzzy
thickness.
The strong groove continues in the following track Final scream, accompanied by a hypnotic
krautrock vibe with lots of drumming goodness and guitar jam.
Dusty brings on some psychedelic moments, slow and mellow,
like a daydream in soft warm summer rain. With echoing vocals, extremely
relaxed and almost fading out after two-thirds through, it suddenly breaks into
a hard driving groove to its end.
The closing track Overload
brings yet another facet into the album, female vocals to perfect the
spacey entrancing bass driven repetitive rhythms with a beautiful melody.
I could tell you all this and more, but in fact all
you need to know is:
This band spends one day in the studio and comes out
with this album that sounds breathtakingly soulful. It proves that brilliant
musicianship doesn’t necessarily need overly intricate constructions and yet is
able to create exciting music that
contains a variety of moods and facets. A kind of laid-back unobtrusive
attitude and tons of heartfelt tunes is all these four guys need to create
something special.
“Listen to
it”
words by Ulla Roschat
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