DÜÜL SUNS – Serpentine
Rock music, much like any other form, needs to do either one of two things – either make you glad of the circumstances in which you find yourself, or make you want to travel far away and try your luck again. Both are valid strategies, of course. However, the first, the one that embraces vivacity, is the one most easily embraced by audiences and, therefore, most attempted by artists.
DÜÜL SUNS, and a few others, make music that caters to other, less frequently encountered fans – people who want to travel great distances while using their imagination. Ironically, this isn’t music for people who spend half their weekend preparing their outfit and the other half knocking about town in the trediest bars. Rather, this is for stranded kings and queens of the imagination.
Luckily, “Serpentine” by DÜÜL SUNScaters to people who’ve built their palaces inside the comfort of modern lofts and houses, people who have acquired the gift of closing their eyes and transporting themselves to wherever they need to be.
DÜÜL SUNS makes the kind of music that 70s proggy, psychedelic bands, typically from Central and Northern Europe, used as a way of predicting the future. The predictions are still ongoing, and the future’s yet to be written. DÜÜL SUNS are here to participate, relate their findings and rejoice in finding ways to make their Anatolian psych-rock fantasies blossom.
Terror Forms – Slate
The more artists want to say, the less people are likely to want to listen to them. It is, of course, one of the great ironies about being creative. Everyone who has learned how to do it feels inclined to prove their worth at each opportunity. This is why so many rock songs contain so many elements that, frequently, clash with each other. But do audiences really want to follow along with all of that?
Terror Forms takes a minimalist approach. Working with silence has always been the most underrated tool that musicians have at their disposal. It’s an undervalued art form. And, frankly, the true sound of silence can be absolutely terrifying. It plays sounds and draws images into our imagination that no amount of artistic skill could conjure.
Music’s a colossal thing that can inspire people to fear or to love. But, it’s also, magic aside, dictated by simple math. Terror Forms manage to sound grandiose all across the single “Slate.” But the ghostly sounds turn to angelic calls with only the most subtle alterations, here. And those silences weigh a ton throughout. Terror Forms aren’t just working to alter the format of pop music. The group’s working with whatever makes you care deepest about music, with your very expectations of it.
