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Photon Band: Pure Photonic Matter Volume 1
ByMany of these works include melodic hooks atop punishing backbeats and heavy guitar voicings. It's like you've heard it before, but can't equate the overall sound and style with one particular band. There is a consortium of psycho burnouts and intense jamming metrics, but pieces such as "Found in Space" cast ethereal qualities via analog electronics effects and phased-loop guitar parts. On "Sounding in Fathoms," the music takes on a classic Haight-Ashbury hippie spectrum, with guitar phrasings reminiscent of a Quicksilver Messenger Service jam foray. It's a moveable feast amid distortion-laced riffs to complement a few mid-tempo rockers interspersed within the program.
Di Furia connects the dots from the old to the new on this harmonious venture, firmly rooted in sustainable compositions and not simply a retread effort that dawdles in a superfluous stream of technical gymnastics. Simply put, Pure Photonic Matter Volume 1 is an unanticipated surprise for 2013.
Track Listing
Thought Crimes (Part 1); What You See; From Eternity (To Here); Posi-vibe; Went To The (Space Bar); Found In Space; Soundings In Fathom; Believe In Believin' ; ... But I Wanna Know; Pret-ty Lies; Don't Feel Bad; Thought Crimes (Part 2); Repose
Personnel
Art di Furia: guitars, bass, vocals and drums (8); Patrick Berkery: drums and tambourine (10); Noel Babineau: drums (10); Luc Wenzel: counting (1).
Album information
Title: Pure Photonic Matter Volume 1 | Year Released: 2013 | Record Label: Mvd Audio
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