Windy & Carl
Depths

THE REVIEW

Drone. Not that I personally use it much. Between Sunn O))) and Earth, the risk of hives is always around the corner. However, it's also true that if you search carefully, you can find something appreciable in caldrons that least conform to our tastes.

That's what I thought when I first listened to "Drawing of Sound" by Windy & Carl: melodies that timidly emerged from a layer of reverberations and feedback, long yet fluid compositions, dreamlike female voice. Even I could listen to drone, albeit shoegazified and softened by dream pop litanies.

Impressed by that 1996 work, when I had the opportunity to purchase this "Depths", I didn't hesitate and spent the coin. I was ready to bounce again on the psychedelic pink clouds of the Detroit duo, but it's clear that there's no greater mistake than to extend our idea of ​​an artist's work to the remaining discography that we haven't yet listened to. And yes, one could already infer something from the title. No pink clouds here: just lots of water, seabeds with attached fauna, and a sense of lack of air once you reach the almost twenty minutes of the title track and the over fifteen minutes of "Aquatica".

Who would resist thirty-five minutes underwater without breathing after all?

Fortunately, the work is not just a deep apnea, and tracks like "Sirens", "Undercurrent", "Set Adrift" and "The Silent Ocean" indicate that we won't die from drowning, but die from memories. With "Surfacing" our lifeless body will return to the surface (and yes, because we will have died from something anyway), just in time to leave one last clueless smile at those pink clouds that will mockingly look at us from the sky this time, while Windy (or the Almighty) mutters some incomprehensible words accompanying our earthly farewell.

P.S.: No sea this summer.