psych-folk duo of Vincents,
(Vincent Caylet and Vincent Fribault)
gives an overwhelming focus to the guitar,
with little noticeable looping or sampling
that appears in there later work,
its out on Denmark experimental folk
label a beard of snails, who release
a fare amount of easily digestible
psych-noise, some of it fairly disposable
monks on the other hand are far from disposable
all though this is not there best effort
its a good place to start, it lays the ground
work for there melodic cathedral sized sound,
to illustrate my point about the focus on guitar
listen to track 4 skouo, its a simple four chord Melodie
played over again for two and a half minuets,
there is nothing spectacular about it and i miss
any point it has to the rest of the album,
it seems out of place and transparent,
track two is probably the most in depth
of every thing the release has to offer,
its a layered melodic seven and a half long
musing of repeating guitar gentle wind instruments,
and bells, the one track on the album that makes
the most sense taking its time to round out,
track three is also a nice blending of sporadic
ambiance and mild and nostalgic repeating guitar,
the release has an untouchable familiarity,
maybe its intentional, the album is dedicated
to old movies and directors of classic films,
its a good effort and it works on different levels
its meant to stir up old memories, i cant quite
get into it though maybe the memories aren't from my past,
check out there new stuff here >>
http://www.myspace.com/monksofthebalhill
their housecraft release is beautiful grab a copy,
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