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The RIDE's bassist Steve Queralt and the BBC writer Michael Smith decided to work together on a captivating record called Sun Moon Town. The results are mesmerizing and very much focused on the word which I appreciate a lot.
It gives me overall vibes of Oddfellow's Casino's The Cult of Water - not only due to the spoken word vocals but also thank to the slightly psychedelic, guitar and electronica-oriented moody music that fills the backgrounds (especially in In a Wonderland!). The responsibilities are clear: Queralt wrote and performed the music part, Smith the lyrics and vocals one with particularly attentive way of speaking, making the whole thing sound like an exciting take on an audio book. No wonder that even Queralt says: "Michael’s voice has so much depth and character and I love his eye-rolling, withering view of the world".
This fantastically mesmerizing cooperation is all about the way the cities and the reality around us changed in recent years, very much in Future Conditional's style we tasted just some weeks ago. In particular, Smith wrote about his return to London, a place that changed a lot in short time. As he states in Glitches: "We’ve sleepwalked into the wrong England, so new it looks like the future, a future no one wants". The music changes throughout the album, from the post-rock like steadily going towards calmer, ambient like album's finale in In a Wonderland that features Smith's son reading Lewis Carroll's poem to make it even more special.
Sun Moon Town costs 5 EUR (4 GBP).
Check: Vespertina
Country: UK
Genre: spoken word electronica
Label: Bytes
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