SORE MEMORIES ALWAYS END

CECILIA :: EYES Belgian post-rock band from the lonely plains from where the wind has no restraint, hovering sound where the vintage organ fights the drums, where the guitars seem to let the notes of pre-creation flow! Post à la SIGUR ROS, fat sound of MONKEY3, hovering instrumental. They define themselves as 'a subtle blend of slow and noisy melodies', a soft but hectic rhythm bringing soothing atmospheres to ghostly and oh so structuring voices. This is their 5th album from this quartet made up of Christophe THYS, Nicolas DENIS, Pascal THYS and Gauthier VILAIN.

'The Brightest Explosion' begins with the recognizable dramatic intensity, its taking stratospheric. 'Parenthesis' reminding me of the experimental wanderings of THE GATHERING second version, indie-shoegaze era; voices in soft, cottony and quilted choirs. 'Twin Mountains' for a psychedelic climb with intoxicating drums, more ethereal at the end; prog concept where you can drown in different and similar titles. 'Russian Tales' on the same basis, a longer title that becomes hypnotic. 'Empty Rails' catchy, soporific, soft, Nicolas's voice suddenly sends me back to the hovering derivations of the great KAUAN. 'Missing Pieces' on a variation where the female voice can recall from afar the magnificent wanderings of Anna's voice, I am thinking here of the last HIPGNOSIS; the synths again on THE GATHERING atmospheric period, in short it flies high. 'Promises of Rain' immense for this phonic reverberation that makes you take off again; the plot remains pleasantly melancholy. 'In A Blue Cold Cloth' long crescendo and it's not the Geiger counter that will scare me away; Iliketrains and its post rock so particular to SIGUR ROS seem present. 'Frozen Sand' on another latent depressive air, just to then go up in the musical clarification with drum roll and the return to these typical guitars, oozing with notes from the beginning of the world. 'The Air Bride' for the final, tempo drums with finesse, spleen guitar accompanied by choirs embellishing this long descent into their beautiful, particular and romantic universe.

A group that plays on sensitivity, on the mental state in which you find yourself; ideal for meditating, relaxing, reading and putting this album back on repeat. A dark, cheerful album to give hope in these cursed times, a superb album in its musical niche featuring each note, each musical wave like a granite density with immeasurable spleen. CECILIA :: EYES done in the deep post.