Title: 9th and Last Life
Artist: Sadman
Genre: Electronic / Rock
Release Date: 12th February 2010
Label: Memento Materia
Album Review
Swedish two man project SADMAN whetted the appetite for their album '9th and Last Life' a lot with the single 'I Hide'. Will the album be able to live up to the high expectations raised with the harbinger? Well, to find out read the lines below.
Throbbing synth sprinkles sputter out of an unknown source when the preceding single 'I Hide' begins to fall into unfettered rock desperation that'll wrestle your feelings down on the ground ultimately. With 'Angel' wet, plunging rhythm work meets a minor guitar figure that delicately encompasses, somehow caresses the brittle vocals which are not as stripped of hope as they've been on the previous one. Decaying synth bass shatters make the fundament to which the micro beats following up are going to cling, while the elegiac vocals are fading into a dark, cold winter night on '9th', it seems. Then, towards the first chorus a choir of melancholy souls rises from the wintry depths, penetrating the already thin membranes, protecting your soul of an emotion overflow easily, and you haven't even heard the second part at that point.
On 'End Up in Calm'. the vocals are being drenched in the immersive soundscapes of fluid layers weaved from oscillating melodies freely floating around, only to be accompanied by slow-paced rhythms of shifting force. With roughened and yet smoothly gliding beat work 'Wolves' is coming along. But that's not what makes this my momentary favourite on the new album. It's the immense thickness of the magical atmosphere that is first towering up in front of you and then embracing you completely. In a strange way it feels like a gloomy fairytale told to children to scare them. I posed a question in the introduction, and now I'm going to answer it with a clear yes. The album's full of fine details, beautiful melodies, unobtrusive yet not powerless rhythms. SADMAN have progressed audibly in all departments. You can't do anything wrong with buying this record.
Tracklist
01. I Hide - 4:37
02. Angel - 3:58
03. 9th - 4:45
04. I'm of - 4:41
05. End up in a Calm - 3:40
06. Gone - 4:10
07. Drama - 2:58
08. Wolves - 5:12
09. How - 4:26
10. Final Surrender - 4:18
Line-Up
Lars Fernström - Songwriting, Music
Mattias Räftegård - Music
Website
http://www.myspace.com/sadmanmusic
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 8
Sound: 9
Extras: -
Total: 8.5 / 10
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