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Simeon Bartholomew is the conceptual leader of the Australian experimental post-rockers from SEIMS. The band bought me two years ago with their shorter album 3.1 and now they show their fourth, particularly crazy album.
Although the release is advertised as mathrock drawing a lot from the music of 65daysofstatic and such, the first thing one notices about the band's music is the use of neoclassical instruments (violins and cellos). It's pretty special as they don't serve as only romantic ornaments, the whole compositions are based on them; there's little to none heavy guitar walls of noise; in this aspect, the Australians make extremely artsy and jazzy music. Of course the mathrock references are not a mistake here; those delicate instruments create a real madness here: the paces change, the melodies are subjective, the next part of a composition is anyone's guess. And this is all created by music that in many places feels practically orchestral (the louder parts of Stranded. Isolated. for instance) and less frequently, surprisingly guitar-heavy (Biting Tongues and The Mountain's Scream).
The album was mixed and mastered by people from the very top of the Australian post-rock society and it can be felt in the music's quality. The album is said to include their most "engaging and hypnotic material" to date and it surely feels the most experimental, one the artists had a lot of fun when making. And judging by their modus operandi, I can bet money on that the next album will be titled V.
FOUR costs 10 AUD.
Check: Biting Tongues
Country: Australia
Genre: artsy mathrock
Label: Art As Catharsis
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