HEREAFTER (DIGIPACK) (PROGRESSIVE GEARS) $15.THE BOY WHO WOULDN'T GROW UP (MINI LP SLEEVE) (SEACREST OY) $14īURNTFIELD - Multi-national band that mixes prog and melodic rock with well-crafted songs. īERNARD, MARCO - Excellent symphonic prog concept album by one of the masterminds behind The Samurai Of Prog projects. OLD WAVES NEW SEAS (DIGIPACK) (AQUAPLAN) $16ĪRT DECO - Solid symphonic rock with female vocals.SAMMALIKOSSA (DIGIPACK) (KINGDOM RECORDS) $16ĪQUAPLAN - Nice symphonic rock with female vocals.LULLAMOINEN (DIGIPACK) (KINGDOM RECORDS) $16.SOUNDS FROM THE PAST (DIGIPACK) (KINGDOM RECORDS) $16.Great stuff! ĪNCIENT BEAR CULT - Great Celtic folk with flute, lute, hurdy gurdy, bouzouki, recorder, sitar and lyre. ĪLAMAAILMAN VASARAT - Hoyry-Kone offshoot and a bit similar. ĪGENESS - Very good post-Scarab neo symphonic prog. Has a Middle-Eastern vibe that runs throughout. Recommended!ĪALTO - Fantastic prog/folk/ethnic band that plays acoustic guitars, mandolin, didgeridoo, clarinet and sitar surrounded by beautiful female vocals. An absolute tonic of a record.AARDVARK - Fantastic progressive that sounds straight out of the 70's referencing Nimbus, Kaamos and Nova. Thoughtfully crafted and an absolute feast for the ears, it feels like a case study of dreams as alluded to by the title, and marries substance to their style. Kairon IRSE! have produced possibly the most uplifting and exciting set of songs you’ll hear crawl from this strange underground rock ‘n’ roll world of ours this year.
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When they hit full cosmic reverie on the stunning Altaãr Descends – well, that warm fuzzy feeling I described at the start will have you in its full grasp by then. It’s epic, yet condensed into pop song form and delivered with a sense of wonder. Go back to An Bat None again as a prime example, from the sun shower keyboards intro and angelic vocals through to the moment when they knuckle down behind the bass and drums for a buzzsaw climax. I’ve lost days to this record.įrom the lilting hypnagogia of Mir Inoi to the driving White Flies (which marries that fantastic bass sound to some glistening key/guitar phrase in one of the albums many highlights), regardless of what tempo or angle the songs take, Kairon invest everything with a sense of elation. You’ll find yourself listening on repeat for hours without realising. However Polysomn feels timeless also in the sense that it gives one the feeling of stopping time, freezing the world around you. This collision of familiarity with the utterly unexpected is the kind of psychedelia that feels far more exciting and genuine than simply rehashing the past with some fuzz and wah pedals. There are occasional nods to the past – instrumental Hypnogram feels like it could have strolled in from an 80s Genesis album had Collins and co necked a handful of pills to add to the magic – but somehow everything feels like it’s from the future.
The songs on Polysomn are timeless in a couple of senses. Kairon IRSE! have produced possibly the most uplifting and exciting set of songs you’ll hear crawl from this strange underground rock ‘n’ roll world of ours this year… To make music this dense feel so spacious is no mean feat. It’s deceptively breezy music, but there are so many layers of sound at work, so many little details. Guitars and synths smear and blur into each other, surreal and oneiric but never anything less than euphoric. The airy timbres of the instrumentation leave you feeling weightless. It’s a record that you feel, if played at the correct volume, might somehow cause you to physically levitate. You’ll notice I used the words ‘blissful’ and ‘ecstatic’ back there these are the two most apt words that I can use to convey the feeling captured on Polysomn. Strangely though the song lengths are more concise, it’s perhaps not as instant as Ruination on first listen, coming across as a slightly more textural effort, but before you know it, you’re firmly sucked into its orbit. It’s safe to say that first taste wasn’t a fluke, and that Polysomn is another absolute beauty.
First single An Bat None indicated they weren’t going to steer us wrong, leaning perhaps in a more succinct direction but not compromising the ecstatic nature of their previous work. Polysomn arrives with no small amount of anticipation to those already hitched firmly to the Kairon wagon. It’s been a long wait to see where they’d land after that sprawling musical journey. They took elements, you knew in your heart should fit together, even though no-one had really managed it, and finally made it work. We last heard from these Finns on 2017’s tower of strength Ruination, a minor masterpiece showcasing a seamless blend of prog, shoegaze and possibly the greatest bass sound ever committed to tape.
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