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Rating: As usual for Hood's music, we are in the realm of autumn.
It is music made of reverberations, echoes of distant sounds, voices that collaborate with the instruments, serving them rather than leading them.
Dense, multi-layered music. The textures are so stratified and complex that listening becomes an exploration of the infinite sounds scattered and constituting the album's tracks.
Tracks that lead beyond, to distant places, ever further away. But from where?
As if we were hearing infinite echoes but had lost the original voice that emitted them. Music of those who have lost direction, of bewilderment, of the deconstruction of sound structure and sense.
Post-rock?
Yes, in this sense, music of the end of the millennium. And of the new one. Of an era that has lost the courage to speak and prefers not to, of an era crushed by the weight of history, of the past. Crushed by the infinite sequence of events. Of sounds emitted. Sound then both minimal and maximally maximalist.
Minimal in constructing essentially simple songs, with a trunk that anchors them to an approachable, audible, human sense structure. Call this pop if you will. So be it.
Maximalist in the complex overlay of sound layers. In the end, the songs are not stories, melodies. There is no melody subsequently adorned with embellishments. The embellishment is everything. The melody is not independent of the sounds that compose it. It is their sum. A sonic puzzle where each element enriches and gives sense to all the others. An organic music. A sound organism that moves forward and drags.
And the tenderness.
The Hood caress you, radiate the morning with the tenderness of an original warm gesture. Outside Closer is an album less electronic than usual, less melancholy too.
Autumn has returned.
But it warms the hearts.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
06 The Lost You (04:42)
islocations lead
Oh you're no good
I made the wrong choice
I was crystallized
(I'm cheating myself.... same problem as usual)
Oh oh Yoni they traffic drugs
They smuggle shadows for her i am blind
They're calling to '02
The year of the lost you
So give me just one minute
I'll turn you against god and
It's only because they care
They must act so savage
You know that I couldn't ever
Have the time to witness the passing of these years
Into the lonely night
I dedicate this day
Oh yoni they traffic drugs
(you know the I couldn't ever have the time)
They smuggle shadows for her i am blind
(to witness the passing of these years)
They're calling to '02
(into the lonely night I dedicate this day)
The year of the lost you
The year of the lost you
The year of the lost you
The year of the lost you
You(x10)
Yeah me to
Feelin' like i'm standing on your feet
Searching
Calling all the offices in the town
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