par Giallo » 02 Jan 2014, 18:50
Une review américaine de l'album :
"When a band writes me and says something like 'we are a psychedelic band who…', they can stop right there. Sold! I am always interested in anything from the tried and true style from the sixties to further modern explorations. The Black Waves has all the great spacey moves down like their fellow 'Black' bands, the Black Angels and the Black Lips. They shape their sound into a rock drone mixture that makes me think of Echo and the Bunnymen, if Echo couldn't come up with clever hooks and instead went deeper into drone. This band still have enough melodic moves here, so it is far cry from background music. And they vary the instrumentation later on in the album to really add some spark. This reminds me of a more historically placed Spacious Mind or a slightly Euro post punk Black Angels. There are many fine psychedelic rock bands out there and the Black Waves can clearly be added to that list. They are from France, so I won't expect to see them in a DC club right away, but with this kind of talent, I hope it can happen some time.
Songs to try first:
The Shepherd - This establishes the rock based drone style with a comforting vocal workout as well.
Electric Waves - A slower, somewhat menacing song as the descending pattern grows louder and fuzzier.
Levitation - No, not the 13th Floor Elevators, but a Floydian beginning moving into something closer to Woven Hand meets International Harvester."
Et une review brésilienne (dédicace à Ruitos) :
"Parece que a psicodelia moderna atingiu com maior intensidade os europeus, embora fora daquele continente existam importantes e fantásticas exceções, como é o caso do Tame Impala (Austrália) e do The Black Angels (EUA), nesta ordem. Mas voltando à Europa, é a vez de The Black Waves, da França. Fundada em 2008, o primeiro EP foi lançado somente em 2011 e o álbum de estreia, Thousands of Visions, em setembro de 2013. Não deixe de ouvir "Full-Time Dreamers", "1000 Miles Away" e "Electric Waves". O álbum com 14 faixas resultantes das influências de My Bloody Valentine, Jesus And Mary Chain, Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd, Warlocks e até dos contemporâneos Black Angels, está disponível para audição via SoundCloud oficial da banda (ouça no player abaixo)."
[b]Sinon on balance un EP 4 titres gratos en février
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