Windy & Carl: Heavy Early & The Creation Of Venus (Blue Flea, 2024)

November 3, 2024 at 1:26 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Windy & Carl: Heavy Early & The Creation Of Venus

Currently available at the group’s live shows and on Bandcamp, the new Windy & Carl album consists of two tracks, nearly an hour each, which have been in the making for years. “Heavy Early” has a Smiths-inspired jangly guitar riff looped endlessly, with subtle atmospheric details underneath. It also feels like there’s some imperfections or cracks in the loop at times, almost making it seem like it’s being played live the whole time. Or maybe my ears are just tricking me. I listen to this a lot while going to sleep, so it’s a very in-and-out-of-consciousness piece of music for me. Anyway, this is truly beautiful and addicting and I could easily have this on repeat forever and never get bored of it. “The Creation of Venus” is a complete opposite mood. It’s more keyboard driven, with some soft guitar shading, and it has kind of a cold glow to it, but it also feels like it progresses a bit more than the other piece. The opening section is more active, with Alice Coltrane-inspired playing, then it goes still after 20 minutes or so. This cleans the slate a bit, and at just the right moment, shimmering vocals hit, as well as distant hissing noises and a resonating guitar line, before it all ends with keyboard glow.

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