Album: Monument (2014)(EP 6 Track's)
Genre: Prog Rock (Post Rock/Shoegaze/Ambient) / UK
Epic45 are back with a new EP! Well I say new, four of these tracks have been released before a couple of years back on Monoscope and the other two are an ISAN remix and a reworking of the title track featuring Disco Inferno’s Ian Crause, but that’s new enough for me. The sounds on here are quite minimal but also richly layered, with the earnest vocals sitting on warm cushions of synth drift and dreamily echoed guitar twinkles. It’s a finely detailed and gently paced EP which recalls latter-era Talk Talk in its silky post-pop cleverness. 'Skeletons' sees a simple vocal line augmented by glitchy echoes of itself that reminds me of the brittle fragility of some Hood stuff, but the backing is much more lazy and languorous than that band’s autumnal precision. ‘Ideas As Opiates’ (a Tears For Fears cover) goes in a different direction entirely with the soundstage dominated by a simple two-chord piano motif, some simple percussion and soothing boy/girl vocal harmonies. It’s a nice little U-turn to tie up the EP and keep us guessing. As for the remixes, ISAN’s mix of ‘Monument’ is full of alien modular synth loops and quavering drones, joined after a while by the familiar vocal line, a basic synth melody and some ghostly synth choirs. It’s quite a departure from the lushly accessible original, colder and somehow distant, but still quite affecting. ‘Monument II’ is a slight reinvention of the original which throws in some harp and loads of reverb, but it’s still recognisably the same song. It opens up quite nicely in the chorus with some tasteful guitar and is that an accordion? Review by "Bot3000" (www.normanrecords.com).
RATING: 7 / 10
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Genre: Prog Rock (Post Rock/Shoegaze/Ambient) / UK
Epic45 are back with a new EP! Well I say new, four of these tracks have been released before a couple of years back on Monoscope and the other two are an ISAN remix and a reworking of the title track featuring Disco Inferno’s Ian Crause, but that’s new enough for me. The sounds on here are quite minimal but also richly layered, with the earnest vocals sitting on warm cushions of synth drift and dreamily echoed guitar twinkles. It’s a finely detailed and gently paced EP which recalls latter-era Talk Talk in its silky post-pop cleverness. 'Skeletons' sees a simple vocal line augmented by glitchy echoes of itself that reminds me of the brittle fragility of some Hood stuff, but the backing is much more lazy and languorous than that band’s autumnal precision. ‘Ideas As Opiates’ (a Tears For Fears cover) goes in a different direction entirely with the soundstage dominated by a simple two-chord piano motif, some simple percussion and soothing boy/girl vocal harmonies. It’s a nice little U-turn to tie up the EP and keep us guessing. As for the remixes, ISAN’s mix of ‘Monument’ is full of alien modular synth loops and quavering drones, joined after a while by the familiar vocal line, a basic synth melody and some ghostly synth choirs. It’s quite a departure from the lushly accessible original, colder and somehow distant, but still quite affecting. ‘Monument II’ is a slight reinvention of the original which throws in some harp and loads of reverb, but it’s still recognisably the same song. It opens up quite nicely in the chorus with some tasteful guitar and is that an accordion? Review by "Bot3000" (www.normanrecords.com).
RATING: 7 / 10
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