a r t i s t : Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words
t i t l e : Fall, Fall, Falling
d a t e : 2007
l a b e l : Kalligrammofon
g e n r e : Electronic
r l s. d a t e : May/2008
t r a c k s : 08
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 71,10 MB
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Like a young Werther with a mohawk haircut and worn out nail
polish Thomas Ekelund has been formulating his musical letters
with machines and concrete sources of sound for some years
now. Under the moniker of Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words he
has released mp3 releases, ep's and albums influenced by, or
carrying traces of melancholic pop music, 60's girl groups,
music concrete and the pale harshness of early industrial
music.s
Fall, Fall, Falling is Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words third
full length album and he describes it like this:
Fall, Fall, Falling might come to as a shock to some of you.
While there's always been a sense of pulse, rhythm and melody
in my work, this album takes it one step further. Though still
very much based on the drone, Fall, Fall, Falling is rooted in
much more traditional song structures even going so far as to
introduce drums in the mix. It's still Dead Letters though,
layered, micro tonal and hypnotic.
Thematically the album takes off where Old Ghosts, New Ghosts,
All Ghosts left off. It's about yearning, for what was, for
what could've been or for it to never have existed. It's about
breaking down...apart... up. It's about grotesque reactions
and the distortion of memories. It's about self-destruction,
-mutilation and -loathing. It's about scars/shards. It's about
that sinking feeling. It's about falling.
I have always appreciated the possibility of focusing on the
appearance of a legible romantic spirit in the works of
DLSODW. Dividing my listening focus between the explicit dark,
ambivalent, self destructive themes and the more implicit
hopeful, loveful and purifying elements that lie within.
A lot has been said about the way in which Thomas so
successfully has managed to bring organic life in to his
barren and mechanical musical world. It has always struck me
as a simplification. The epical strength that are to be found
in the works of DLSODW, should not always be explained by the
external means with which the storyteller presents his
narratives, rather by what words really are spoken or not
spoken. Thomas may use many words or "no words" but they are
never dead. Therefore his moniker seems to represent the voice
of the inner and outer world speaking to himself rather than
being his own musical expressions speaking to the listener. A
vast amount of letters and words that bring legible and
illegible resonance to his music. Inner voices spoken.
Returned to sender.
The Term concrete drone pop may still be the most apt and
straight way to describe DLSODW's music. Fall, Fall, Falling
is a solid album and may be considered his most straight
forward to this day. It carries traces of that walls of sound
associated with shoegaze pop bands like My Bloody Valentine
and Jesus and Mary Chain.
To be released in limited edition on CD and cassette with
stunningly beautiful artwork by Thomas himself.
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01-I Could've Sworn I Heard Them SING [07:11]
02-Nineteen Ninety Two (Tape Decay) [03:57]
03-I Need You So That I Could Die [06:17]
04-July 12th 2005. [10:08]
05-When She's GONE [07:08]
06-All The Things You Ever Said [05:56]
07-Ashen Like The Sky [04:54]
08-It's Self-destruction Time Again [05:36]
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