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Reviews
Rarely does ambient music flow with as much ease as Disinterested’s (a.k.a. Matt Brown) sophomore release. Behind Us is a gorgeous dream of shoegazey drones and echo-laden guitar melodies. It's cinematic, it's melancholy, and it's definitely become our latest stoned-on-bus-at-night soundtrack.
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Set to feature several compositions in the Shoegaze-ambient vein, not a million miles from Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd's recent collaboration, "What You Wanted" is lifted from the album and is a delicious taster incorporating a triumphant, euphoric accumulation of blurring ambiance and echo-drenched guitar. angryape
On Behind Us, Trespassers William guitarist Matt Brown dons his Disinterested
guise for a second album of gorgeous shoegaze-ambient guitar settings.
Though Brown generally works alone, it's telling that one guest is
none other than celebrated ‘jazz' guitarist Bill Frisell since
Brown, like Frisell, is an innovator open to the sonic possibilities
offered by effects pedals and other equipment. How lovely it is to
hear the two entwining six-string fragments over a flickering base
in the slow-burning meditation “Blankets.” Behind Us
is always heavily atmospheric and often melancholy, with “I
Wish It Was the 90's,” a pensive setting of graceful guitar
peals, perhaps the album's most beautiful piece, though lovely moments
of stately grandeur also emerge during “Dissonance” and “What
You Wanted.” Some of the material is close in spirit to Manual,
whether it be dramatic shoegaze (“Last”) or widescreen
ambient (“Behind Us,” “Sunnydayafter”), while
the shuddering intro in “January” will remind some listeners
of Klimek. Mention should also be made of guest Anna-Lynne Williams
whose delicate murmur nicely enhances “Felt Leaves.” If
there's one puzzling thing about the project, it's Brown's choice
of alias: Behind Us sounds anything but disinterested.- TEXTURA |
