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Artist......: I Break Horses
Album.......: Warnings
Label.......: Bella Union
Genre.......: Indie
Catnr.......: BELLA964CD
Source......: CD
Rip.date....: 2020-06-17
Str.date....: 2020-05-08
Quality.....: 822kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Url.........: http://www.ibreakhorses.se
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1. Turn 9:00
2. Silence 4:28
3. l a r m 1:03
4. I'll Be the Death of You 4:37
5. d e n l i l l a p σ s e a v l y c k a 1:59
6. The Prophet 5:41
7. Neon Lights 5:44
8. I Live at Night 4:29
9. Baby You Have Travelled for Miles Without Love 4:24
in Your Eyes
10. Death Engine 7:51
11. a b s o l u t a m o l l p u n k t e n 2:17
12. Depression Tourist 2:33
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,: The name Warnings naturally suggests something foreboding. :,
: Whether reflecting on the signs you missed but should've seen, :
:' or imagining what could be around the corner, there is danger ':
,: in it, there is tumultuousness in it. Maria LindΘn's new album :,
: as I Break Horses uses the title, and sure enough, plenty of :
:' turmoil still lingers in this music. But you don't get the ':
,: sound of anxiety. You don't get the sound of the apocalypse. :,
: Instead, LindΘn's been working her way toward these songs and :
:' out of the struggles that inform them for more than half a ':
,: decade. On this Warnings, what you get is the sound of patience. :,
: close :
:' ':
,: Warnings is defined by a beauty that takes time to reveal :,
: itself, flickers of inspiration LindΘn had to search for as :
:' things burned down around her. It's not as if she's been off ':
,: painting or writing a novel or something in seclusion and just :,
: recently returned to writing I Break Horses songs; the album :
:' seemingly really did take all these years to materialize. ':
,: LindΘn has mentioned all kinds of stop-start trials: different :,
: studios, collaborations falling through, losing work thanks to a :
:' crashed hard drive, starting from scratch, eventually finishing ':
,: the album at home. Somewhere in the past, she'd used her :,
: favorite movies as writing prompts, playing them on mute and :
:' composing imagined soundtracks. That process itself waits on ':
,: revelation, crafting atmospheres and then starting to notice the :,
: songs that wanted to emerge from within. Whether functionally or :
:' spiritually, Warnings had to be pulled from the ether, given ':
,: shape. :,
: :
:' In the abstract, that's what I Break Horses albums have often ':
,: done. They capture this gorgeous, hissing haze, and then these :,
: sharp flashes of clarity shooting through the air. When I Break :
:' Horses first arrived at the beginning of last decade with ':
,: 2011's Hearts, people spoke of them as being shoegaze-esque, :,
: this being during that mini-shoegaze-revival moment. But they :
:' were never really a part of that, as the heady mix of shoegaze ':
,: and electronic and dream-pop that dominated 2014's Chiaroscuro :,
: proved. Nor were they really in step with whatever micro :
:' electronic pop trends arose at the time. Now, on the other side ':
,: of that decade, they exist with even less context, which suits :,
: them. I Break Horses have always made music that lights up the :
:' mysteries inside us with giant, emotive soundscapes, music that ':
,: you could sink deep into or use as transport to some imagined :,
: far away place. All of this just makes Warnings that much more :
:' enveloping. ':
,: :,
: "It's not a political album," LindΘn said in an early press :
:' release during Warnings' rollout. "Though it relates to the ':
,: alarmist times we live in. Each song is a subtle warning of :,
: something not being quite right." In some ways, the twilit fog :
:' of Warnings feels of our time, strained meditations assembled ':
,: while trying to ignore the chaos outside. While some big-picture :,
: ideas enter, Warnings really feels like an account of romantic :
:' strife, the distance between people at the end of things and ':
,: the tentative glimpses of other lives and new characters. :,
: :
:' Speaking of patience, LindΘn opens her long-awaited new I Break ':
,: Horses album with a nine-minute epic called "Turn" that catalogs :,
: the collapse of a relationship: resolving to leave in the first :
:' verse, telling her soon-to-be-former partner "You're wasting my ':
,: time and my future" in the second, before finally deciding, :,
: "Turn/ I can't turn love around/ And I'm losing my mind." "Turn" :
:' rides along the sort of floating, circular synth pattern that ':
,: feels like you're tumbling through a blurred highlight reel, :,
: remembering important people or passages in your life as they :
:' fade into a filmic, impressionistic backdrop; or, rather, you ':
,: could perceive it as a sort of amusement park of your :,
: nightmares, lilting carousel melodies grown corroded as you spin :
:' around and around through the same patterns, until you finally ':
,: manage to leap off the ride. :,
: :
:' Similar sentiments are scattered throughout Warnings. Right ':
,: after "Turn," in "Silence": "I put a river/ You put an ocean/ :,
: Between you and me/ Can't go on/ I don't even know you anymore." :
:' In the album's closer "Depression Tourist," LindΘn sings, "You ':
,: dream about making love/ Against the wall/ But there's never :,
: really room to make/ Love at all/ We hold on to your dreams/ Our :
:' broken dreams/ To keep our promises/ We're a broken team." She ':
,: delivers it all through a ghostly vocoder, as if to illustrate :,
: the way our lives suddenly seem foreign and unrecognizable to us :
:' the deeper we've entangled ourselves in broken situations. ':
,: Sometimes the chronology and perspective shift - "I'll be the :,
: death of you" is a different kind of warning, a doomed yet :
:' alluring come-on. In one of the final stretch's many climactic ':
,: moments, LindΘn sings the title of "Baby You Have Travelled For :,
: Miles Without Love In Your Eyes" over and over, like a :
:' sympathetic hand reaching back to her old self. ':
,: :,
: All of this is rendered in a world that is psychedelic and :
:' bleary at once, LindΘn building up layers upon layers of ':
,: immaculate synth textures that you could perceive equally as :,
: lush visions or long drained sighs. Most of Warnings swells and :
:' pulses; even its more direct moments don't really delve into ':
,: the soaring thrust of "Winter Beats" or the moody dance churn of :,
: "Faith." There are long, contemplative sections of Warnings, :
:' there are drifts like "I Live At Night" and suggestive segues ':
,: as instrumental interstitials throughout. Much of the album :,
: seems to occur in transition, still-unfolding personal :
:' reckonings and disintegrations. Throughout, Warnings provides a ':
,: perfect sound for those in-between spaces, nebulous and vibrant :,
: but not escapist. While mostly unfailingly beautiful, it has a :
:' hint of distortion haunting the edges, like old Technicolor ':
,: under a few decades' worth of grime and damage. :,
: :
:' In that context, each time something rises up above - a ':
,: melancholic melody, a synth line that bursts rather than :,
: searches - it feels like a small resolution. And those moments :
:' of clarity stick with you. "I'll Be The Death Of You" and "Neon ':
,: Lights" lean towards the poppier side of I Break Horses' sound, :,
: perhaps more than ever - but they are still otherworldly, :
:' infectious yet slightly trippy and washed-out. Each time LindΘn ':
,: brings herself to a peak of intensity, it's overwhelming, the :,
: sound of someone finally surfacing for air. It happens when the :
:' beat picks up underneath the final refrain in "Neon Lights," ':
,: and it happens again in the intensifying currents at the end of :,
: "Baby You Have Travelled For Miles Without Love In Your Eyes." :
:' ':
,: Warnings essentially concludes with "Death Engine." (One more :,
: instrumental and "Depression Tourist" form an epilogue.) And in :
:' that sense, it brackets the album with "Turn," two long, ':
,: emotionally raw monoliths. One is pissed-off, fed-up, a resigned :,
: and long-delayed goodbye. The other is all empathy, grappling :
:' with a friend's suicide attempt and the dire places we arrive ':
,: at as a generation, as a society. There aren't really neat bows :,
: tied around any part of Warnings; it still depicts those things :
:' that are over there, waiting for us later. But it traces ':
,: loneliness across a spectrum, pulling away from those we :,
: shouldn't be near and offering some kind of solace with those we :
:' should. The music, perhaps more than the chillier or more ':
,: cerebral moments on past I Break Horses albums, often offers the :,
: same. :
:' ':
,: LindΘn had planned to make her comeback as I Break Horses in a :,
: far different world, one in which she wanted to encourage :
:' everyone to slow down in a time that was frantic and fragmented ':
,: and disorienting. Instead, we now all have to live with a :,
: certain amount of quiet and stillness. We all have a lot of time :
:' to think about, well, time, and how we've spent it, and how ':
,: we'll spend it later; to think about the people we've known and :,
: the things that have faded away. It turns out that Warnings :
:' might be more appropriate now than ever, not reacting to the ':
,: noise of the world but giving us a place to sit and sift through :,
: what we've known. And eventually, along the way, you can start :
:' to hear colors seep into new shapes, new futures crystallizing ':
,: out of murk and the gradual bloom of new beginnings. :,
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