a r t i s t : De La Mancha
t i t l e : Release All Light
d a t e : 2008
l a b e l : Crying Bob Records
c a t : CBR017
s o u r c e : CDDA
g e n r e : Indie/Electronic
r l s. d a t e : Apr/2008
t r a c k s : 04
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 29,1 MB
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Release all light is the second track on 'Atlas' and it has
been described as the perfect marriage between My Bloody
Valentine and Sigur R≤s. Heavy drums and distorted guitars
come head on with shimmering piano motifs. And above it all,
angelic voices sing a song about love, regrets and
resignation.
L7 is a fragile, serene piano composition that may or may not
be the most beautiful piece de la Mancha has ever recorded.
It is also an adaptation of a yet unreleased de la Mancha
trackà
Release all light (Machinefabriek remix) is probably the
scariest thing you..ll ever find on a de la Mancha release.
The track flows like some kind of poisonous tar, smothering
everything and everyone that it touches. Machinefabriek has
transformed the track into something else entirely, something
that is very much his own. Be afraid, be very afraid.
Release all light (Xela remix) is also on the darker side of
the spectrum. Muffled voices float in and out of the track and
at times static threatens to overtake the music. But it
doesn..t because throughout the track, Xela pulls off the
balance between darkness and light perfectly.
Those of you familiar with the latest work from Xela will
recognize the atmosphere of this remix, and you will hear that
this is something uniquely his own.
boomkat:
This Quixotically named bunch are likely to be best known
around these pages for featuring none other than Jasper TX
(aka Dag Rosenqvist) on electric guitar and electronics
duties. Nothing sends chills down my spine quite like the
prospect of an electronic musician starting up an indie band,
so it's with no small amount of relief that I can report this
lot do in fact know what they're doing. The single "Release
All Light" is the first single to be lifted from the band's
forthcoming album, 'Atlas', and presents a band deriving much
of its creative inspiration from the shoegaze era (as is only
to be expected nowadays) while elements of ┴gµtis Byrjun-era
Sigur Ros lend an air of the grandiose to proceedings. B-side
'L7' (a tribute to the tampon-hurling grunge band of the same
name, perhaps?) shows another side to the band's persona -
it's a glistening piano ballad with frontman Jerker Lundh's
voice sounding like a cross-pollination of Mark Kozelek with
The Notwist's Markus Acher: a little worn and defeated, but
highly emotive nonetheless, in the loveliest way imaginable.
Remixes come from Machinefabriek and Xela, with Rutger
Zuydervelt sculpting a quiet, ominous soundscape that flirts
with noise textures and glitching electronics before John
Twells takes the baton for a seven-minute re-contextualisation
of the central vocal, which finds itself set adrift in an
ocean of radio interference, oscillator hum and swooping
background vocals. Lovely.
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01-Release all light [05:11]
02-L7 [05:32]
03-Release all light (Machinefabriek remix) [05:56]
04-Release all light (Xela remix) [06:49]
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