![]() Although I defy anyone to dance to it without looking like they have large pebbles in both shoes. It is a challenging listen, as the band splice together seemingly un-related sections time and time again, but the end result is richly entertaining. ![]() The track breaks out at 3:40 with a fuzzed out bassline straight from Black Rainbows’ school of heavy psych, before the irregular time-signatures and general bonkers-ness returns. ‘Sinister Water I’ has psych guitar, dark atmosphere, mathy rhythms and heavily folk-infused vocal harmonising, which calls to mind short-lived Swedish shoegazers Fields as much as it does Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull. ![]() The opening 25 minutes of the record sees Kairon IRSE! swimming wilfully into mysterious, sinister waters. I made a list of the potential genres that this album could/doesn’t fit into, and I had psych, post-rock, math rock, folk and prog within the first 45 seconds of the album starting. It sees the band move definitively in the direction of classic Prog (yes, with a capital ‘P’- call me out, if you must), with track lengths on 3 of the 6 on show stretching toward 12-13 minute proportion, and the whole album dispensing almost entirely with the previous blitzkrieg of noise, and focusing instead on bringing a trippy, pastoral and more refined, spacious style.ĭespite the move to a less abrasive sound, the willingness to dive head first into the previously unheard is very much alive and well. Hailing from Seinäjoki, a small city in western Finland, this innovative, experimental four piece now present their third record Ruination. It was an enthralling, explosive ride through the largely unchartered territory of psychedelic post-rock, additionally incorporating elements of shoegaze, progressive rock and generally being smashed out of your skull on some rather fine acid. "Despite committing any number of crimes in the eyes of the grammar police, Kairon IRSE! certainly made more than just an exclamation mark with their second album Ujubasajuba in 2014. but a tremendously quality release this is. I'm not doing a very good job of describing it's quality. Rather complex in an old-style way (think Kultivator, Gentle Giant, Miriodor) and with nice, ethereal vocals, but also with a certain touch of modern guitar stoner / shoe-gaze-dom that makes this unmistakably sound like a record of today. The band is heading for an extensive Finnish tour in February, and live appearances abroad are to be expected as well.Krazily named new progressive / psychedelic Finnish band who show a fairly masterful level of maturity and control on this, their third album. “Juho shared our vision of how the album should sound”, comments guitarist Niko Lehdontie, “but he also gave us a much needed outside view of the proceedings.” Svart Records is set to release both Ruination and the group’s first album Ujubasajuba on February 3, 2017, on CD/2LP/Digital. Ruination was recorded in the summer of 2016 at Tonehaven Studios producer Juho Vanhanen (Oranssi Pazuzu, Grave Pleasures) at the helm and Tom Brooke recording and mixing. On Ruination the curiously named quartet heads further, beyond the point of no return, into their own world of sound, where power chords, arpeggios and quirky vocal harmonies flow. Though often bundled with the shoegazer movement, Kairon IRSE!’s music has since the beginning been a rare bird inside the scene: it rings out with a different tone, and already on the first album the influence of classic progressive rock was evident. Whereas the debut album was largely born out of improvisation and jam sessions, Ruination is the fruit of two years of careful composing and arranging work, taking control of the chaos. The band describe their music as an appreciation of the ideas and overall mentality of experimental pop musicians of the 60s and 70s, combined with a modern approach and original musical vision. Titled Ruination, the album will be released by Svart Records in February 2017 on CD, double LP and digital. Since then the band has performed at various large festivals and meticulously written the new album. Despite the lack of a physical release the album found itself on many a best albums of the year -list in 2014. Debut album Ujubasajuba already knocked the planet off its orbit, even though it was done as a DIY Bandcamp release. Progressive shoegazing? Music of the outer spheres? An irrevocably mentally unstable Gentle Giant and a severely alcoholic Todd Rundgren having a love child which, after being adopted to Russia, finds himself performing a rock opera in the Ural Mountains? It is typical of the human mind to try and classify things, but when confronted with Kairon IRSE!, many are at a loss for words.īehind the moniker Kairon IRSE! there are four inner space travelers from western Finland. 300 pcs limited edition on black vinyl, 300 on brown and 200 on red/yellow vinyl.
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