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Dear Chechnya debuts on Rope Swing Cities with a beautifully haunting album
of seasonally appropriate music, These Cold Hands, This Quiet Sea. Why is it
so appropriate to this time of year? Because it's becoming cold and gray
more and more often, everything is dying, the world: it's depressing.
The music of Dear Chechnya is dark… it's dark and discomforting… it's dark,
discomforting and moving. On tracks such as "Flourescent Adolescence", the
juxtaposition of voice recordings providing the context for the focus of
slowly building ambience mixed with guitar and drum displays itself
wonderfully. Crescendoing in an emotive dirge evoking feelings of
disoriented heart break, the song plays out an entire life's story in only
seven minutes. This is the overall theme of much of Dear Chechnya's These
Cold Hands, This Quiet Sea: simple stories of soul sadness.
Despite the overlying malaise that crowns most of the music, this is in fact
an incredibly peaceful and touching album. Beautiful melodies, fading into
rising and falling washes of sound form a landscape for thoughtful
contemplation of whatever has been haunting your mind lately (There's
something, there is always something, i mean, it's like you're washing
dishes, and before you can finish, there are more dishes to wash, and it's
just this continual cycle of almost feeling like you made it, just to be
pushed down out of reach again. But that's fine, you'll persevere. Work hard
and hang in there and stuff.).
--
joshua.
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