WE ARE WINTER’S BLUE AND RADIANT CHILDREN: “NO MORE APOCALYPSE FATHER” (Constellation, 2024)
October 28, 2024 at 8:29 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
WE ARE WINTER’S BLUE AND RADIANT CHILDREN: “NO MORE APOCALYPSE FATHER”
by a new project featuring Efrim Manuel Menuck from Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Mat Ball of BIG|BRAVE, this is somewhat similar to various incarnations of A Silver Mount Zion, but much noisier and dronier. Menuck’s trembling vocals and apocalyptic poetry are set to throbbing vibrations and glimmering synths. The effect feels similar to witnessing a divine heavenly light in a cathedral, while being sheltered from a violent thunderstorm. The title track sounds particularly bleak and ravishing, while the uncommonly beautiful “Uncloudy Days” is a much-needed glimmer of peace, driven by the message that “there’s no good but the good we make ourselves”. The longest track begins by referencing the time Michael Jackson dangled a baby over a hotel balcony, singling out one specific weird moment in popular culture which was amplified by the sensationalist media system that’s only gotten more unbearable since then. The verse is relatively short, then the music swells up into a great cacophony, and all you can do is just sit in the middle of it and FEEL, there’s no way to fight yourself out of it. It’s magnificent.
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