Blume - Autumn Ruins
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This year's autumn is rich in interesting releases, as e.g. Blume with their "Autumn Ruins". This is only the second band’s album, but during the hearing you have the impression that they have been operating on the music scene for a quite long time. Is it a matter of characteristic sound, or themes that are taken into consideration, the record introduces to pleasant to the ear, slightly elusive atmosphere, of eternal human’s struggles.
In this release you have to deal with an anxious, difficult to grasp climate, just the very intro itself introduces to the topic undertaken by artists – sense of being left alone in the state of abandonment along with wallowing in despair. The next track is an excellent combination of electronics and warm vocals, indeed it is like that on the whole album, with one exception, namely, "For My Lorraine", which as the only one stands out from the whole by being kept in the stylistics of Love Like Blood ballads - here unexpectedly extends at the forefront an acoustic guitar.
Pieces on that album contain the message about love spells, broken promises, awareness of the imminent end of feelings. Listeners have the opportunity to participate in this sacrum of inner struggle, inextricably linked to a multitude of contradicting feelings, extreme impressions, rushing stream of thoughts and inevitably bound with the poignant experience of losing a loved one.
This is a piercing record, deeply personal, moving under the surface of the usual masks and generally accepted assurances, that nothing has happened. Blume sensitively reflects in the music things that seemed to be since always transient, applying at the same time a series of healing experiences, that with their sound soothe your shattered nerves and stimulate the senses.
Beautiful, stirring album. Perfectly fits with the ubiquitous, somewhat sleepy season. Diverse sounds abound in electronics being a good background for sad and disturbing vocals. The record creates a kind of a peculiar map of feelings, using the balanced sound. And "Western Rust" will remain for long one of my favorite pieces.
Tracklist:
01. Ruins and Despair
02. Western Rust
03. Alone
04. To The Night
05. The Chosen
06. Arclight
07. Plutonian Shores
08. Freia
09. It’s Your Turn
10. For My Lorraine
In this release you have to deal with an anxious, difficult to grasp climate, just the very intro itself introduces to the topic undertaken by artists – sense of being left alone in the state of abandonment along with wallowing in despair. The next track is an excellent combination of electronics and warm vocals, indeed it is like that on the whole album, with one exception, namely, "For My Lorraine", which as the only one stands out from the whole by being kept in the stylistics of Love Like Blood ballads - here unexpectedly extends at the forefront an acoustic guitar.
Pieces on that album contain the message about love spells, broken promises, awareness of the imminent end of feelings. Listeners have the opportunity to participate in this sacrum of inner struggle, inextricably linked to a multitude of contradicting feelings, extreme impressions, rushing stream of thoughts and inevitably bound with the poignant experience of losing a loved one.
This is a piercing record, deeply personal, moving under the surface of the usual masks and generally accepted assurances, that nothing has happened. Blume sensitively reflects in the music things that seemed to be since always transient, applying at the same time a series of healing experiences, that with their sound soothe your shattered nerves and stimulate the senses.
Beautiful, stirring album. Perfectly fits with the ubiquitous, somewhat sleepy season. Diverse sounds abound in electronics being a good background for sad and disturbing vocals. The record creates a kind of a peculiar map of feelings, using the balanced sound. And "Western Rust" will remain for long one of my favorite pieces.
Tracklist:
01. Ruins and Despair
02. Western Rust
03. Alone
04. To The Night
05. The Chosen
06. Arclight
07. Plutonian Shores
08. Freia
09. It’s Your Turn
10. For My Lorraine
