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:: Release Info:
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:: Artist......> Air Formation
:: Title.......> Daylight Storms
:: Label.......> Club AC30
:: Genre.......> Indie
:: Rip.Date....> Feb-23-2007
:: Street.Date.> 000-00-0000
:: Source......> CDDA
:: Quality.....> VBRkbps - Joint-Stereo
:: Play Time...> 50:41 min
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:: Track Listing:
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:: 01. Cold Morning
:: 02. Tidal
:: 03. Daylight Storms
:: 04. I Can't Remember Waking Up
:: 05. Into View
:: 06. Formation 1
:: 07. You Have to Go Somewhere
:: 08. Adrift
:: 09. The Dark Has Fallen
:: 10. Before We Forget
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:: Release Notes:
::
:: "Take me away, from it all" sighs Matt Bartram during the hushed
:: lullaby that is 'Adrift', and the entire momentum of this record
:: is captured accurately in one deep breath.
::
:: Having operated on the outer periphery of the mainstream for a
:: good seven years now, Brighton's Air Formation are undoubtedly
:: one of this nation's best kept secrets. Their forays into sonic
:: experimentalism and guitar-orientated ambience should not be
:: underestimated by any stretch of the imagination, and even if
:: they don't exactly shout about what they're doing from the
:: rooftops, the clue is in the title, I guess.
::
:: Daylight Storms is a collage of almost surreal, swathing noise
:: against a backdrop of choir-like vocals and picturesque melodies.
:: "Where have I heard that before?" you're probably thinking to
:: yourself, and if you started to think of the pastoral epics of
:: Nowhere-era Ride, the tremolo-drenched beauty of Slowdive or
:: even, dare I say it, the apocalypse of everything dauntingly
:: original and spectacular that was Loveless, then you're barking
:: up the right tree.
::
:: But let's get something straight. To merely label this record as
:: just another shoe-gazing album would be doing both the artist and
:: album in question a great disservice. It would more than likely
:: result in the self-denial of one of the most lavish collections
:: of music your ears will have the pleasure of experiencing all
:: year.
::
:: Daylight Storms doesn't kick off as much as it steadfastly floats
:: into view, like some arcane voyage of discovery that doesn't
:: quite take full effect until anchored, in full regalia, straight
:: in oneÆs line of sight. And that's just on the swooping beast
:: that is opener 'Cold Morning'.
::
:: 'Tidal' takes a gentler approach, using casually strummed jangles
:: against a wall of reverb and echo that recalls the heady days of
:: Vapour Trail and such like, although vocalist Bartram's tones
:: give it - and Air Formation as a whole for that matter - a quite
:: unique entity of its own.
::
:: Take in the gigantic kaleidoscope that is the title track and
:: marry it with the mind-blowing burnout of 'I Can't Remember
:: Waking Up' and it really does feel like being in the middle of a
:: dream where you're taken out to sea and despatched in the middle
:: of some unspeakably colourful parallel universe.
::
:: 'Into View' is like a post-nuclear meltdown encapsulated into
:: four-and-a-half breathtaking minutes, while the distortion filled
:: instrumental that is 'Formation' feels like the re-invention of
:: post-rock courtesy of alien beings from another planet.
::
:: Already over halfway into the record, you're almost doubting
:: yourself, wanting a lull or something to take your mind away from
:: Daylight Storms for just a moment. Of course that moment never
:: comes, as the record just keeps on delivering new bursts of
:: energy coupled with radiant excerpts of calm that take and
:: replenish one's breath in an instant.
::
:: The aforementioned 'Adrift' is possibly the nearest thing Air
:: Formation have ever gotten to a three-minute pop song (either
:: here or on any of their previous recordings), yet its dreaminess
:: fits handsomely into the rest of Daylight Storms with consummate
:: ease.
::
:: The album's finale is almost claustrophobic; it seems to beg the
:: listener not to let go after such a prestigious journey. 'Before
:: We Forget' is like the last post played through a battered old
:: telecaster, part-acoustic and invitingly haunting as Bartram
:: struggles to get the words out a la Bob Wratten in the Field
:: Mice's 'Let's Kiss And Make Up'. Seven minutes later it's all
:: done and dusted, but not forgotten.
::
:: Just another shoegaze record you say? I sincerely think not...
::
::
:: http://www.airformation.com/
:: http://www.myspace.com/airformation
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:: Buy it if you like it!!
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