Moon Construction Kit and Thomas Azier Reviewed
Moon Construction Kit – Down the West Coast
You still have to learn to interact with music and with the world at large if you’re hoping to get any significant benefits out of each one. But, alas, I fear my friends, that all this convenience is designed to make us lazy, and to help us to forget.
Music has never been cheaper. It’s affordable to consume, thank the Heavens, but there’s so much of it nowadays. And it is marvellously cheap to make if you don’t much care about the results.
But you should, as Moon Construction Kit would like you to recall. The Swiss group, in fact, focuses on music that is carefully crafted, expertly put together, and that sounds expensive, especially in terms of musical ideas, to make.
“Down the West Coast” is a song inspired by the musical world of Brian Wilson, and by the magic of a world that still waits to be discovered. The arrangement on this one is of a particular, rare beauty.
Thomas Azier – Room of Love
There’s not a lot of proper love songs being written nowadays. And while this is disappointing looking all around, the absence of romance within pop music makes sense. It seems that everyone is either obsessed with staring at themselves using their phone as a mirror, or is much too afraid of the world around them.
And, when people do try and get away from the egotism or the fears, they get stuck on meditating about sunny beaches and towering cliffs. Few people meditate on love anymore, and we risk the feeling of it becoming foreign to us. Thomas Azier is working diligently to maintain it intact.
“Room of Love” tries, no more, no less, than to stop the world in its tracks, to slow everything down, to rinse out some of the hatefulness and aggressiveness that seems to be all around us in recent times. Azier goes for a soft, welcoming sound, for a gentle embrace, for dream pop as a way back into contact with the things that truly matter.
