Møl の新作

Møl
DREAMCRUSH

DREAMCRUSH

70--96点相当

デンマーク出身の5人組バンド

3rd

ALBUM REVIEW: DREAMCRUSH - MØL - Distorted Sound Magazine

Returning with their third full length album, Danish quintet MØL are set to offer up another piece of sublimely crafted blackgaze. Like the beauty within a thunderstorm, MØL are masters of dominant loud dynamics with illuminations of captivating melodic brilliance. They’ve gone from strength to strength since their initial EPs and 2018 debut, with previous album Diorama receiving widespread and thoroughly deserved acclaim. Lauded for their songwriting and musicianship, MØL are a band that stands apart from others with their ability to build multi layered emotionally intense walls of sound that are both grandiose and engaging. DREAMCRUSH promises to deliver a trove of the same.


The appropriately titled DREAM opens the album. Appropriately titled as it is a rich, dreamy soundscape that layers the textures and melodies, generating a truly enthralling introduction.  MØL have become known for having wonderous production and right from the off, DREAMCRUSH delivers. It is impossible to not feel the emotive connection that the band are seeking to create. It moves between an ethereal level to an utterly crushing all out attack of exuberance. Gloriously uplifting in its crescendo and fulfils the role as example of how the album plays out.

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Whitelands の新作

Whitelands
Sunlight Echoes

Sunlight Echoes

70--80点相当

歌メロの作りは、

ティアーズ・フォー・フィアーズ(Tears for Fears) 

っぽいところがある。

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Between Whitelands' first and second albums, it evolved from an unfocused alt/indie solo project into a Slowdive-inspired shoegaze four-piece that landed on the Sonic Cathedral label. That second album, Night-Bound Eyes Are Blind to the Day, made new fans including Slowdive's Neil Halstead, who toured with the group in 2024. Whitelands singer/guitarist Etienne Quartey-Papafio and band further develop their sound on third album Sunlight Echoes, which finds them taking their audioscapes in brighter, dream poppier directions on occasion while also expanding their swirling, hazier atmospheres. Quartey-Papafio's lyrics remain sociopolitical in nature, as he bears witness to the genocide in Gaza on the buzzy, clattering, and angsty "Dark Horse," and turns to the likes of Luigi Mangione and Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing on the warmer and more elated "Heat of the Summer," a sweetly melodic song more specifically about community.

2010年代後半にイギリスのミュージシャン、Etienne Quartey-Papafioの

ソロプロジェクトとして始まる

IDK の新作

IDK
e.t.d.s. A Mixtape by .idk.

e.t.d.s. A Mixtape by .idk.

No Ripcord  75点相当

Album Review: e.t.d.s. A Mixtape by .idk. by IDK

IDK caught a fifteen-year sentence at seventeen and did three. The outro on “HALO” does the math plainly: “If I did the whole time, I’d be out in 2025.” That ghost schedule haunts the project, every brag measured against the version of himself who never got to make one, every flex a rebuttal to a cell he can still feel. The proving runs deep. “I’m a crook with a deal,” he announces early. “If my record don’t sell, I’ma rob and steal.” The if-then construction tells you everything—success is parole, failure is reversion, and the pacing keeps one foot in both worlds just in case.

The robbery material is where the writing gets sharpest. On “SCARY MERRi,” IDK walks through his teenage lick routine with the precision of someone who still remembers the floor plan: kick in the door, pass the china in the living room, find the master bed, locate the safe, grab the stash. The Conductor Williams beat staggers like a drunk stumbling home from a bad decision, and the lyrics match—he walked a man down from the 7-Eleven at seventeen, walked into Zara with a bookbag and walked out with merchandise, and took an iPhone from a woman leaving a train. The detail that sticks is the stepfather’s wallet: “Left enough, so if they ask how much he lost, he couldn’t call it.” That’s the precision of harm calibrated to avoid detection, a kid who learned to steal in increments that don’t register as theft.

"IDKは17歳で15年の刑に服し、3年を過ごした。「HALO」のアウトロは、その計算を如実に示している。「もしずっと服役していたら、2025年には出所していただろう」。この幽霊のようなスケジュールがプロジェクトに付きまとい、自慢話の一つ一つは、一度も口にできなかった過去の自分と比較され、一つ一つの自慢話は、今もなお感じる牢獄への反論となる。証明は根深い。「俺は取引のある詐欺師だ」と彼は早口で宣言する。「もしレコードが売れなかったら、強盗をしてやる」。if-then構造が全てを物語っている。成功は仮釈放、失敗は再犯、そしてペース配分は念のため両方の世界に足を踏み入れている。

強盗の題材は、歌詞が最も鋭い部分だ。「SCARY MERRi」では、IDKは10代の頃の習慣を、まるでまだ部屋の間取りを覚えているような精密さで再現する。ドアを蹴破り、リビングの陶磁器を通り過ぎ、主寝室を見つけ、金庫を見つけ、隠し場所を掴む。コンダクター・ウィリアムズのビートは、誤った判断からよろめきながら家に帰る酔っ払いのようによろめき、歌詞もそれに合致する。彼は17歳でセブンイレブンから男性を送り届け、ランドセルを背負ったままZaraに入り、商品を持って出て行き、電車から降りる女性からiPhoneを奪った。心に残るのは、継父の財布だ。「いくら失くしたか聞かれても、言えないように、十分な額を残しておいた」。それは、発覚を避けるために調整された危害の精密さであり、窃盗として認識されない程度に少しずつ盗むことを学んだ子供なのだ。"