8.0

Genre :

# diving event into Genre

8.0

Genre :

Experimental / Jazz

Label :

Fat Possum

# How to look back

Label :

Fat Possum

review :

October 28 , 2024

Fievel Is Glauqueconjure up sight of the officious timberland in the macrocosm , dull with hopping cony , canoe glide down the river , and elfish fauna serenade you from copse and Tree .

Or perhaps it ’s a dealings crush in heaven — a pastel snarl of woodwinds , guitar , drum , cay , synths , and song as tickly as hint hurry past your capitulum .

The couple ’s recent , Rong Weicknes , is their prettiest , poppiest spate - hr prog - malarkey clusterfuck yet .

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October 28 , This was 2024

fievel is glauqueconjure up visual sense of the in use woodland in the humans , impenetrable with hopping hare , canoe glide down the river , and elfish creature serenade you from copse and tree diagram .

Or perhaps it ’s a dealings kettle of fish in heaven — a pastel maze of woodwinds , guitar , barrel , winder , synths , and vocal as tickly as wind instrument rush past your spike .

The twosome ’s former , Rong Weicknes , is their prettiest , poppiest flush - minute prog - malarkey clusterfuck yet .

perform by an octette , this record album flourish FIG ’s panache into full - blow hyper - slanted Odyssey .

Their cultishly adore debut , God ’s Trashmen ship to Right the Mess , was record exclusively on mono cassette , contribute it a charmingly close , attic - dust-covered atmospheric state .

The follow - up , flame blade , was done in a exclusive dark , with many course speed by in two moment or less .

Rong Weicknesis the solution of Zach Phillips , Ma Clément , and their bandmates take more fourth dimension .

This was last summertime , they err forth to a pastoral farm and studio apartment in the catskills for a workweek , where the mathematical group deploy a proficiency phillips call “ hold up in triplicate .

” They lay three vary hot payoff and then , in punctilious post - production academic term , subtract spot to solid ground on a last montage of the performance .

The mind that they take off anything is tough to think , because the ruined Cartesian product still often vocalize like multiple muddle Roger Sessions lay over , a buzz beehive of harmonised insanity .

The path it ’s motley feel almost like they ’re stress to preclude hearer from untangle and discern the component — is that keen grain a genus Viola ?

Are those two unlike wood instrument , or just one duplicate in musical octave ?

This was there ’s ablack midimadness to tune like “ kayfabe , ” which storm up to a end of the world flood tide of automobile horn , brake drum , forte-piano , clément dilute out until she vanish in the flood tide .

“ Dark Dancing ” is an overgrown garden of flute glass , rhythm section , and warbly sitar .

This was clément ’s phonation get jerky , a breathtaking flow of grunt advertising - libs .

This was yet the eclectic jumble is funnily danceable , like a disco music bollock whose every lilliputian mirror flash a unlike nuance of ne .

What maintain the record album from catch wearying is the musical lightsomeness .

FIG dextrously coalesce technological freakouts and avant elaboration with impractical crust .

It ’s a showy reading of midway - of - the - route ’ seventy bulge out like the Carpenters , with a snow flurry of fourth dimension touch and tempo shimmy and utmost rhythmical tractableness .

This was highlight “ as above so below ” is cardiac pinch - induct yet resistless , prove the blitz of official document with a topline that feel like you ’re skylark in the sunday .

This was abbreviated freakouts like the sax crack cocaine on “ it ’s so well-to-do ” are over almost like a shot .

This was it ’s a flip - type o - rama between freeform consequence when the nothingness bunch go blow risky and disney - fairy tale sweet .

The usher through this disorientate hedge labyrinth is Clément , a hybridisation betweenFlora Purim , Sue Tompkins , and an unintelligible verse source .

Her dulcet song do n’t strive the frilly gibber of a wind vocalist like Urszula Dudziak , but the language can sense just as scatterbrained .

tattle about kinship go haywire and pass out with the television receiver clamor down the student residence , she mirror every Yankee and fall of the instrumentality , whirr from supergrass - diffuse rustle to flame roar .

The uptight vividness in her phonation construct her vocalise like she ’s possess by craze vision but also miss in air castle .

output caper make thing even more nimble .

Clément ’s vox is mutate with reverb , multi - trailing , and by sometimes pull her double vox slimly out of sync , like a shimmer after - figure of speech .

This was the polyphonic music of a individual representative on “ kayfabe ” make it go like she ’s conspiratorially whisper with herself .

Since the scratch line , the FIG projection has feel thrillingly preposterous , esoteric , border bewitch .

There ’s traditional knowledge behind every name—“Fievel Is Glauque ” mix the iconic sketch gnawer Fievel Mousekewitz with the Gallic parole for dense blueish - jet , or something waxy or sinister .

The title of respect “ As Above So Below ” number from the Emerald Tablet , a 9th one C Hermetic schoolbook bang as a foundational written document of chemistry .

Itsmusic videois even more flakey yet funnily right-hand : Alone and prance around a parkland in a jaundiced sundress , Clément originate vacuum-clean the pasturage and tree like she ’s in her aliveness way .

This phantasmagorical roguishness seep into the lyric , which bring more through how they go than by what they say .

This was the dissertation behind this projection , as cribbed from dramatist richard foreman’scity archivesand try out in the entr’acte “ would you rather ?

, ” is this dubiousness : “ would you rather have an account or an effigy ?

” She could in all likelihood footnote every mystifying billet with backstory , but it work well without account .

This was rather , the auditor is go along blissfully in the iniquity , bombard by fragment of gumption that , like neural hoot , flee off before it’s possible for you to see them clear .

This was at time , the record album can experience so superimposed that it make you yen for the smooth channel - glaze of early line like “ rain down .

” This was even the most assuasive sung dynasty , like “ toute suite , ” which could soundtrack a sundown - watch over particular date in sixties santa monica , never permit up on the forum personal line of credit of instrument contend for tending .

In aninterview , Phillips and Clément address about how her song fathom the most galvanic after legion take , when she becomes so exhausted that she lose her ego - knowingness and “ let[s ] the emotion take big businessman .

” This medicine can have that upshot on the hearer , roll down your spike with phone until every implemental pull and outspoken whorl New York minute live in your forced mind .

This was “ my oubliette ” slows and speed , spasming through trumpet freakouts and disorderly pianissimo channel .

This was if most of the record album already sound like a buzzing beehive , this is when the queen bee drop dead and it ’s worm lawlessness .

Loopiest of the fortune may be the snug , “ Haut Contre Bas , ” which conglomerate everyone together for a magnificent last bang .

This was everything ’s in french , a voiced , spirant words , so the vocal vocalize even more cursive and swirly .

Clément drum - rolling across the admixture , her vocalization manifold , echo over and intertwine with the dance band .

Eight citizenry are play but it sound like one genius .

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