Release
date: November 20th 2017. Label: Tonzonen Records. Format:
CD/DD/Vinyl
Died
With Fear - Tracklisting
1.Orca
10:38
2.Inert
10:19
3.Vast
08:57
4.Morph
13:34
Members
Peter
G. (GIT)
Beat
B. (BASS)
Kerstin
W. (DRUMS)
Review
After
three years from All Black Rainbow Moon (released by Tonzonen Records), the amazing trippy-trio Les Lekin from Salzburg (AT) comes
back with another amazing album, Died With Fear (Tonzonen Records).
Since
from the beginning, the band have managed their own vision of music
by developing long psychedelic suites surrounded by a great stoner
sound and a huge rhythm section.
In
Died With Fear, the band stays fixed to the compositional canons of
their debut album, although this latter sounds heavier and less
psychedelic.
The
album is composed by four long suites of about 8 to over 10 minutes
each, where extreme lysergic moments are interrupted by outburst
stoner riffs sustained by great and hypnotic guitar solos.
All
the songs in the album travel smoothly and without style falls,
almost as composing as a single immense track. Orca, Inert, Vast and
Morph (the 4 tracks composing the album) sounds like something in
between Weedpecker, Earthless and Colour Haze.
The
thing that, I feel, is to be most appreciated in this album is that
it sounds like a jam session, where the band seems to be almost
abducted by playing the songs, sending this feeling to the listener
(at least for me!).
Instrumental
music is very often a gamble for musicians. Many bands fall in the
mistake of diversifying too much their songwriting or, on the other
hand, staying fixed around a common compositional skeleton for the
entire duration of an album. In any cases, to be fully appreciated
for an instrumental band, today, it is a very difficult task, with
the risk to not be understood, or to be understood too late.
Anyway,
this last effort of Les Lekin poses as an excellent listening to the
whole array of fans of instrumental music, where often the first
listening does not make justice. It's definitely not a
‘one-hit-moment album’, and I guess it was probably not the
intention of the band to propose something like that.
This
album has to be heard over and over again, with no background
prejudices and with the awareness that many artists prefer to express
their emotions by expanding their notes in space and time.
Words
by Bruno Bellisario
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