Artists: Ceremony
Title: Safranin Sounds
Genre: Shoegaze / Dark Rock
Release: 1st June 2012
Label: No EMB Blanc
Review Flash
You can call it Shoegaze or Dark Rock with shades of electronic. You can call it gloomy and lightless shining or rusty and reflecting. You can attest it a leaden melancholy and a spiritual zero-gravity, certify a hawkishness and a vulnerability. You can detect distortion and purgation, speed and paralysis, a bit of Punk and a bit of Goth, a pinch of Metal and an ounce of Rock, white sounds and black noises, gods and demons wearing the same mask, a straight road and a merciless maze...
Yes, you can call ‘Safranin Sounds’ all this and you can attest it all this and you can detect all this on it, but you can also spare your words, close your eyes and just drink it in. Because Ceremony (whose both members were once part of the band SKYWAVE before it fell apart to pave the way for Ceremony on the one hand and the more known A Place To Bury Strangers on the other) did not only create a revealing and fascinating retrospective (including their first EP, their debut album and some unreleased tracks), no, while floating down with the music it feels like a ritual, a catharsis, a cleaning fire and soiling ashes and when you have entered all 22 doors in the end you feel like walking through flames, which swallowed you up for making you being ablaze.
Conclusion: ‘Safranin Sounds’ is a stunning piece of work, a journey through noises, atmosphere, pictures and perceptions. Music that abducts your soul and takes it on a trip to the strange and the familiar for arriving deep inside yourself in the end. And you don´t want to stop feeling abducted...
Rating: 9 / 10
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