Destroyalldreamers
A Coeur Leger Sommeil Sanglant

Those who love Slowdive, Mogwai, and Sigur Ros should purchase this album with their eyes closed (which, like many unknown sonic gems, can only be ordered online). The Destroyalldreamers are a Canadian quartet who debuted in 2004 with "A Coeur Leger Sommeil Sanglant" (that is: "like a light bleeding heart asleep," I apologize for any translation errors as I know very little French), a title that explains the feelings that permeate the entire record. A journey through delays, reverbs, feedback, and melodic openings that create crystalline dreamscapes, a delight for anyone who loves to dream with eyes closed and open. Romantic and disorienting songs with a highly evasive potential, in the best sense of the term; listening to it, you will find yourself losing contact with everything around you, following only the flow of your thoughts along the emotional trajectories created by the instruments, in search of continuous climaxes. An album that dispenses continuous emotions, which I recommend listening to at high volume, so as to be completely enveloped by the sonic vortex.

I don't think it's right to reveal anything about the individual tracks; each of us assigns them the meaning we believe best. I only mention the song that takes the group's name, five minutes of pure bliss, caresses for the eardrums. At the beginning of this review, I talked about Mogwai, Slowdive, and Sigur Ros, because these are the coordinates within which Destroyalldreamers move (a moniker that sounds like an oxymoron compared to the band's musical proposal). There may probably be those who speak of simply reproducing past stylistic elements, but I am of the opinion that the four Canadians have instead demonstrated great compositional flair, reworking previous material in such a way as to attribute to it its own physiognomy, refractory to annoying nostalgic references. Ultimately, a great album, a medicine for the soul and mind.