GIANT SKY

GIANT SKY is the project of Erlend Aastad VIKEN, founding keyboardist of SOUP. So an ersatz or an outline of pure creation for this outstanding musician, an encore repetita of the "soupienne" atmosphere itself taking its foundations on SIGUR ROS, this is what we are going to try to see. A text based on the biblical book of the Preacher and a prayer from Pope Francis, we are dealing with uncompromising rock art, film soundtrack music for soaring and intimate night reverie; let's dive.

"The Further We Go The Deeper It Gets Pt. 1-6", twirling intro to SOUP, not to their father the great SIGUR ROS for this dreamlike and whirling sound; 6 planing, relaxing parts, the moog synth or not, modal, finally psychedelic of EAV (it's shorter), associated with the soft voice of Myrtoula Røe in successive waves; divine, enchanting, come on that sends me back to MOTORPSYCHO and its vintage synth hacks. Well, the 70's station wagon just 6 minutes away confirms me and transports us to a new bucolic universe, groovy and sidereal making space rock explosive with its distorted guitars until the minimalist final. "Broken Stone" arrives very delicately, EAV sings divinely, which SOUP lacked, the orchestration with guitar and echoed viola create a Génésienne atmosphere worthy of an archaic 'Trespass' of the most beautiful effect;it feels like the beginning of everything, mind blowing.

The title of the album that gives you goosebumps, that leaves you speechless, a columnist friend would put 11/10 here! This ersatz SIGUR ROS for childish sound effects suddenly gives way to the contribution of explosive percussions, with a lively scratchy voice, Dantesque; final house which denotes, just to test your speakers. Giant. "Interlude" for the piano-flute melody coming from up there, near Him for a divine bucolic sensation, still a purity.

"No Canceling This" then appears on a monolithic synth base, flute and voice in a melancholy raw state, spleen arrives with the female voices; the explosion that we guessed occurs, splashing drums, sustained electronic sounds, it even screams; return of the basic piano and the layers of keyboards which enclose in this melancholic universe of all beauty. "Out Of Swords" on a dark acoustic arpeggio, breathy celestial voices, a violin adds to it; binary melodic tenderness going towards infinity, plaintive guitar of the first convulsions of HACKETT; EAV does almost everything and very well, the dreamlike feeling is perfect with the arrival of a real church organ (here I am melting) touching the most irreducible proguist; the piano with 3 wooden keys adds even more with this bluffing tingel sound and these voices coming from nowhere,taped.

"The Further We Go The Deeper It Gets Pt. 7" for the end of the title and reminder of archaic sounds of SIGUR ROS, you know the ambient sounds coming from Creation; soaring, ethereal, concentrated genesis, scary atonal sounds, fallen angels to take you even higher before being reborn afterwards; the tribal drums of 'Passion' revive you from that limbo where you were lost to bring you to 'Breaking Patterns' and that bass to the inaugural 'The Wall'; drums and flutes come out of their lair and join the synthesized electronic sounds for an orgasmic, colorful, enchanting title, redemption and quintessence; it's dreamlike, a little orchestral break allows you to finally land this long prog journey, the flute adds a layer; acoustic final to land,the flute reminds you that you have gone very far and the decrescendo occurs; a reminiscence emerges, oh that's it, it's really over.

GIANT SKY hit hard by offering subtle music, a post-rock journey, beautiful musical art; it is atmospheric, intoxicating, ambient, melancholic, leading to reverie, classical instruments raise the developed sounds even more. An album apart with less crescendos like on SOUP, an album that aspires to contemplation, to navigation in your own brain to derive absolute musical peace. Be careful, this music bewitches more and more as you listen to it, a must.