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The British electro/post-rock collective is one of my favourite bands since their brilliant album Every Valley and their live gig down in the Guido mine in Zabrze. The artists are devoted to "teaching the lessons of the past through the music of the future" and accomplish this motto by creating concept albums that are almost like documentary movies but expressed by their exciting music. They are finally back with another LP called Bright Magic and it's a blast. Again.
This time it is slightly more difficult to find the theme behind the album. The artists moved, quite literally, from the Welsh small towns and valleys to Berlin, one of the biggest and liveliest metropolia in Europe, and the notion of moving as well as the history of the city is the album's main concept. It is still very much different from previous releases, being "less linear and narrative, instead it’s an impressionistic portrait of a city from the ground up" while in music it's reflected in the less usage of voice samples (with the exception in Der Rhythmus der Maschinen with its tasty reference to Every Valley). You could say it's a situation when a band looses their main characteristic trait, but perhaps it's something they needed to, nomen est omen, progress.
The move to Germany is also reflected in the guest artists on the album with Einstürzende Neubauten's Blixa Bargeld or Berlin-based Andreya Casablanca for instance. There's also a change in the music's vibes but while Every Valley, due to its theme, had a gloomier, bleaker atmosphere, the British artists have always created rather lively and even danceable electronica. So it's not much of a change, in fact it's more like an emphasis on the character of their music, reflected best, of course, in People, Let's Dance. No wonder that the brain behind the project, J. Willgoose, Esq., stated about the album: “I started to get a feeling for where the title of Bright Magic wanted to take me, towards ideas of illumination and inspiration, electricity and flashes of light and colour and sound" and it feels.
Bright Magic costs 7 GBP.
Check: Der Rhythmus der Maschinen
Country: UK
Genre: electronic post-rock
Label: Test Card Recordings
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