Early Day Miners
All Harm Ends Here

LA RECENSIONE

There are things in life that cannot be changed. Others can be molded to our liking but remain in their essence; ultimately, what remains is a futile effort of vital energies aimed at trying to break achieved balances, certainties, because balance hurts, makes you barren, annihilates, but the needle of the scale must almost always lean to one side or the other.
This is the meaning of life, but it is difficult to understand and not always understood. What remains is the memory of what made us jump, not of sterile balances that vanish the moment they are reached.
Each of us has always dreamed of receiving strong "shocks" and not just simple splinters, because the former hit us entirely, permeate our body and soul, while the latter arrive and leave us with only small marks that disappear in a moment.

True shocks are felt when listening to this work by the Early Day Miners, "All Harm Ends Here"; they come from Bloomington, Indiana, and were formed in the footsteps of groups like Slowdive, Low, and Codeine. Their music is a mix of sounds that echoes the slow-core scene but at the same time stands apart, thanks to the ability to occasionally abandon those dark atmospheres to approach a more intimate, light, and faded rock in color.
The best episodes are represented by the opening track "Errance," the subsequent "Townes," and the concluding "The Purest Red"; true gems of abstract melody. The album has an immovable, gentle beauty, like a leaf falling from a tree on a cold autumn day and settling lightly on the damp ground.

An album that when listened to allows itself to be "silently observed" and in the end, what will remain inside us will be an immense emptiness, because it will have sucked out our soul and it will be hard to take it back.
Thankfully, masterpieces like this exist.