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Rating: These few recordings demonstrate how the sound of the project The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa - from the abrasive shoegaze, noisy, and low-fidelity tones of their beginnings to the ambient and synthetic ones that accompanied them until today - has progressively changed, albeit, alas, in a very short time.
Progressively because evidently the intentions were there, but in a short time, drastically, as the story goes that in 1994 someone broke into EOST's house and stole all the instruments, forcing the band's mastermind, Jan P. Muchow, to buy an old computer with which to begin composing electronic music.
The guitars are not completely set aside, in fact, they are not set aside at all, but their fierceness is only perceptible intermittently. Only in the "refrains" does one find, in part, the nostalgic impetuosity that characterized the excellent EP "Pigment" two years earlier.
The use of effects, reverb, echoes, and electronic sounds increases, blending into a hypnotic drone of chimes accompanying the ethereal voice of Irna Libowitz, once more assertive and captivating. Even the rhythmic cadence of the percussion limits itself to recalling the times that were exclusively in the climactic points of the tracks.
An album that compensates for the vehemence of the initial sounds with the ambient experiments that, over time, would disperse, in the opinion of this writer, the true essence of the peculiarity of a band-institution belonging to a movement, that of shoegaze, capable of infusing a pleasant existential melancholy in the listener.
A meeting point, a fusion, a vignette fading out the two faces of a band, perhaps lost, whose glorious beginnings are now all too often forgotten.
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