Title: Monsters
Artist: After Snowfalls
Genre: Electronic / Experimental
Release Date: April 2009
Label: Green XS
Album Review
AFTER SNOEFALLS is the project of French native Louis A who’s a classically-trained artist also working as an engineer with the duo AIR since 2008. His project was initiated in 2004 and released one album with ‘Born Dead Driver’ in 2007 and now puts his second lot into the fire with ‘Monsters’.
It has occurred tome that it’s particularly this species of trained musicians who, if founding an own project, often push the envelope of what most people deem as normal music. Some even go beyond and Louis A. makes no exception for that matter. The opener ‘The Damp Heap’ begins with an electronic beat like a racing pulse intertwined with subtle percussion, distortion and a lot of parasitic frequency manipulation. In the midst of chaos now there’s a voice popping up, piercingly screaming words you can hardly understand since it’s buried under a pile of effects. While the rhythm section of this one has been almost bursting with complexity the one ‘Big Collection’ has sounds rather simplistic if you compare them. But also here Louis is shooting off one bullet of electronic gadgetry after the other and you’ll be getting problems to decide where to listen first. Vocals on the track are markedly melodic and for the rock aficionados there’s a distorted wall coming your way soon but even though it sounds like it it’s not a guitar it’s a processed violin.
‘Promethee’ is creeping forward and utilizing deep bass shockwaves later that will have your subwoofer destroyed when turning the volume too high, I suppose. ‘My Time’ firstly just kicks it off with an instrumental passages showing an eagerness to experiment but being nothing against what happens when the beat stops and a desperate voice cries out into the night being surrounded by the peculiar sound textures of the distorted violin which is given an even more rocking attitude than before when the beat starts over again. On ‘Shit’ we’re dealing with a harsher and more extreme form of an industrial track that is demanding a great deal of your ears as it overruns it with noises and shredded fragments.
The musical skills of Louis are beyond question, but due to its experimental and challenging nature ‘Monsters’ is most likely to appeal to a special audience only.
Tracklist
01. The Damp Heap - 5:28
02. Big Ship - 1:37
03. Big Collection - 4:42
04. Promethee - 3:42
05. Your Shreds on the Ground Part I - 4:38
06. Your shreds on the Ground Part II - 4:15
07. I was Right - 3:16
08. My Time - 3:16
09. The Need - 3:21
10. Shit - 4:04
11. The War - 0:52
12. Angry - 4:55
Line-up
Louis A.
Website
http://www.aftersnowfalls.com/ / http://www.myspace.com/aftersnowfalls
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 7
Sound: 8
Extras: -
Total: 7.5 / 10
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