post rock
take great joy is an album by Australian post rock group hazards of swimming naked, released on November 16. Almost forty two minutes long, the record has eight tracks: there was never a right time, waiting for 5120, curtis, i don't know this road, sofðu unga ástin mín, a loose thread, this common thread and accept the mystery. Although the group mostly follows the basic trends of the genre – at least in some of its most volatile aspects –, with all the preponderant majesty of its conventional sonorous layout, they are able to elaborate and to execute interesting, flexible, texturized and very dynamic harmonies, that circulates indefinitely over the lurid axis of their musical pragmatism. The harmonies are diluted and then recomposed in very fluid and vivid tonalities, that redefine their own cyclic and pleasurable style of conscious splendor in a lucid organogram, that flows indefinitely over its own dilated panorama of impulsive vicissitudes, though in the extension of their more expansive and serene melodies it is possible to feel that the group appears to be more technical than emotional.
With melancholic harmonies that feels more skeptical and cynical than innocent or dramatic, the group knows how to use time and slowness very efficiently, though more occasionally, they also attack furiously the grave surface of their music with tempestuous and abrasive melodies. With the soul of their abundant, but dispersive musical qualities effectively delineating each element of their cohesive sonorous devices, hazards of swimming naked discreetly dwells into a proficient, proverbial, graceful and unpredictable degree of versatility, navigating discreetly even into post-classical territory, expanding their sonorous and majestic elusiveness into a latent, but sensible splendor, that definitely makes their music a mosaic of subtle and perennial dissonances.
The perfect soundtrack for an everlasting dream of imponderable sensitivities and unexpected consequences, take great joy – as precisely the name suggests – is an album upon which you can take great joy while listening to it, as your senses undoubtedly will travel to distant, but warm places, where a surreal, fugacious and vague reality will paint life with a more colorful and poetic vitality, with the exact tonalities upon which hazards of swimming naked impregnates their music.
Despite the fact that the album is somewhat repetitive – at least to a certain extent – take great joy is a marvelous, flexible, genuine, vivacious and delightful sonorous experience. You can definitely feel a vibrant enthusiasm flowing all over you. Despite minor limitations, this album is a very elegant and satisfactory work of art. Mandatory, as a matter of fact, for enthusiasts of post rock.
Wagner
With melancholic harmonies that feels more skeptical and cynical than innocent or dramatic, the group knows how to use time and slowness very efficiently, though more occasionally, they also attack furiously the grave surface of their music with tempestuous and abrasive melodies. With the soul of their abundant, but dispersive musical qualities effectively delineating each element of their cohesive sonorous devices, hazards of swimming naked discreetly dwells into a proficient, proverbial, graceful and unpredictable degree of versatility, navigating discreetly even into post-classical territory, expanding their sonorous and majestic elusiveness into a latent, but sensible splendor, that definitely makes their music a mosaic of subtle and perennial dissonances.
The perfect soundtrack for an everlasting dream of imponderable sensitivities and unexpected consequences, take great joy – as precisely the name suggests – is an album upon which you can take great joy while listening to it, as your senses undoubtedly will travel to distant, but warm places, where a surreal, fugacious and vague reality will paint life with a more colorful and poetic vitality, with the exact tonalities upon which hazards of swimming naked impregnates their music.
Despite the fact that the album is somewhat repetitive – at least to a certain extent – take great joy is a marvelous, flexible, genuine, vivacious and delightful sonorous experience. You can definitely feel a vibrant enthusiasm flowing all over you. Despite minor limitations, this album is a very elegant and satisfactory work of art. Mandatory, as a matter of fact, for enthusiasts of post rock.
Wagner
