Quest For Fire
Quest for Fire

Notably devoted to the doctrine of certain encrusted sounds, with their musical period between 2007-2013, the Quest for Fire certainly succeed in satisfying a great hunger for psychotropic, fractal, and polychrome music.

This debut of theirs, the first of the two and only albums released, consists of a few monolithic compositions, with barrages of slackened sounds and avalanches of battered and melancholic riffs. The three-dimensionality of space rock is everywhere, in each of these clotted guitar distortions, continuously diluted by the singing that almost reassuringly accompanies a barefoot stroll among molten rocks. The omnipresent melodies and soft vocal lines balance the rough nature of the offering, and among the various almost drone-like expansions of this nonetheless cinematic music, there are also desert-like relaxations with dilated pupils, as the slow-burning ballad Strange Ways can well exemplify.

Extremely psychedelic in character, incredibly granitic in production, stoner in solidity rather than in traits: nothing short of lysergic and hallucinogenic.

A trait that in this music I would define more than essential is to ignite long songs starting from few and well-chosen riffs: here they take off. At times they might seem like a sort of crossroads between Pink Floyd and Verve left to melt into heavy-psych, and among the comparisons with some directly involved I wouldn't hesitate to include Sleepy Sun, Dead Meadow, Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound and much of the less harsh side of this type of new psychedelia.

However, no indigestion for veterans of freaky psycho-sonic situations and more than enjoyable even for the allergic to stoner when it’s just a spice. Beyond that, it's a shame they’ve already let go.

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