Nossiennes - Fresh Water Objects (2023)

The British band of Nossiennes appears on this blog quite reguralry. But there is a good reason for this: they release new stuff frequently and the new stuff is always a good stuff. It's no different with this year's Fresh Water Objects album.

Released, as always, by Shore Dive Records, the new album is long. This comes from the fact that for the band, a good composition needs time to properly develop and usually involves long, psychedelic and guitar-filled passages that aim to mesmerize the audience and swallow them completely. In this hazy and noisy environment, the vocals are only something that happens from time to tie: they are very much hidden in the backgrounds and dispersed so the music itself is put in the foreground. The peak of the airiness of this music is reached in the album's final track, Mell's Dream, that actually sounds as if it was not a noise rock song but a sacral event. 

Fresh Water Objects costs 5 USD.

Nossiennes - Liminal (2022)

Nossiennes - Vivere (2020)

Check: So That You Form a Hollow

Country: UK

Genre: noisy psychedelic rock

Label: Shore Dive Records

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The Leontini Vernacular - AMLA (2023)

Two years after the debut EP, Gregory Jameswood and the band he leads are back with new material released on the short album called AMLA. After certain changes in the lineup, the Bristol-based artist who some may know from another noisy band, Nossiennes, created new tracks and I have to say, they do sound really good.

It is no less and no more than a well-written noise pop. The melodies here are easy to follow, the backgrounds skillfully filled with guitar noise (so well, in fact, that some fragments sound like very noisy post-rock music) and the compositions short and dynamic. It's hard to say what's the main genre here: sometimes the music is closer to extremely catchy surf rock, sometimes it's as noisy as it gets. This flexible approach to music is only fitting when you take into consideration the album's main theme, which is "dealing with shadowy aspects of love and loss".

AMLA costs 4 USD.

Nossiennes - Vivere (2020)

Nossiennes - Liminal (2022)

Check: P F

Country: UK

Genre: noise pop

Label: Shore Dive Records

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Nossiennes - Liminal (2022)

The shoegazey trio from Bristol, UK, is back with the first release since 2020's EP Vivere (although it seems there has been some line up changes). It appears that they really like this kind of shorter way of expression as Liminal is also a brief EP. Nevertheless, very worth mentioning here.

Their music surely fits the noise pop/rock genre very well. The extremely disperse vocals and psychedelically guitar-rich music generating an impressively noisy atmosphere are the main reasons, but also the lo-fi vibes contribute here. The very clear line of bass makes me think of some post-punk influences but the overwhelming storm of guitar noise leaves little to doubt: it is a noisy rock release.  The artists would probably agree as they states that they are "aiming to break away from pastiche of the 90s into a less obvious fusion". In truth, there are whole songs here that are only the said noise and they make a tasteful intermissions to the cold and withdrawn pop/rock songs that can easily transform into a perfect noisy blizzards like the album's finale in The Unfortunates does.

Liminal costs 3 USD.

Nossiennes - Vivere (2020)

Check: The Unfortunates

Country: UK

Genre: noise rock

Label: Shore Dive Records

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Nossiennes - Vivere (2020) EN

The label that can always be relied on when it comes to providing with good quality shoegaze and noise rock, Shore Dive Records, in January released another intriging EP. This time it's the English Nossiennes and their album Vivere.

The band makes very old-school space rock with very noisy backgrounds. The characteristic pace of the tracks and dispersed, but not too much, vocals are serious proofs for the space rock inspirations, but we shouldn't overlook what the Englishmen do with the guitars in the backgrounds of, say,  Vivire. Fascinating noise. Even an interlude called Repides makes an intriguing, a bit jazzy cacophony of noisy guitars. The album is closed by more orthodoxly space rock Microcosm. And proves that the orthodox part here is only an advantage.

Vivere costs 3 USD.

Check: Repides 

Country: England, UK

Genre: noise space rock
Label: Shore Dive Records

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Nossiennes - Vivere (2020) PL

Stały dostawca shoegaze'u i noise rocka na wysokim poziomie, label Shore Dive Records jeszcze w styczniu wydał kolejną intrygującą EP-kę. Tym razem to angielskie Nossiennes i płytka Vivere.

Zespół gra mocno old-schoolowy space rock z bardzo noise'owymi tłami. Charakterystyczne tempo utworów i rozproszony, ale nie za bardzo, wokal mocno świadczą o inspiracjami space rockiem właśnie, natomiast nie można nie pochylić się nad tym, co Anglicy robią z gitarami w tłach takiego Vivire. Fascynujący hałas. Nawet interludium w postaci Repides to intrygująca, trochę jazzowa kakofonia na noise'owe gitary. A płytę kończy bardziej ortodoksyjnie space rockowy Microcosm. I udowadnia, że ortodoksyjność to w tym przypadku wyłącznie zaleta.

Vivere kosztuje 12 złotych (3 USD).

Sprawdź: Repides 

Kraj: Anglia, UK

Szufladka: noise space rock
Label: Shore Dive Records

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