The seventh album from Lorelle Meets the Obsolete is a great blend of dark wave and very heady “in the mix” moments. “Regresar / Recordar” starts with a backwards intro. A Deconstructing Dreamgaze mix, starting off in the deep end. The drums kick in when it starts to get too ‘heady,’ with a dark dance vibe to get the audience going. Hushed vocals in Spanish, as well as glimmers of synth light, shine through a dark-scape dream mix. Arpeggiator melodies abound to make Vangelis jealous. One finds themselves running through the night in a direction unknown, and one knows they must get out of the forest before sunset or be left outside.
Lorelle Meets The Obsolete – Regresar / Recordar
“Ker” kicks with a slower BPM than the first track, but still very driving on ’ its own. Reminiscent of some Japanese style ’80s new wave artists but from modern Mexico. There are some angelic Gary Newman synch dynamic shifts towards the end that take you there. Kraut industrial nightfall inspired. “Dilacion” slows things down a bit on a shorter track than the rest of the songs on the album. A huge delayed vocal opens up the song’s main effect of delay that continues reverberating through the rest of the song. “Casi no estar” has an arpeggiated baseline. This is the bad trip of the album that downward spirals, that opens up with a catch vocal lick after a dark night of the soul.
“Palabra” gives us some psych guitar riff disguised as synth, or is it processed guitar? None of the sounds on this album can be made for certain by any instrument. The strength is in ’its production, and creative ways of using layers of sound in any way possible. This album is made for those who like their head deep in a synth, in a heavy mix of a dreamgaze nature, and deep within the synth and the pedal close enough to hear the circuits themselves. The song switches gears midstream to another driving guitar synth tremolo outro. “Riesgo” is an ambient sequence that would make Vangelis even more jealous. Taking risks, one must not awaken the old ones, for fear of what they may unleash.
“Reanimar el cuerpo” is the penultimate track and my favorite on the album. Like a Nancy Sinatra on DMT. This song is a catchy “single” if you will, but produced to be stripped down to the bare bones with dynamic swells and analog drifting vocal delays. Sassy and hard. The final track “Control,” with Spanish lyrics is a deep kick driven outro that builds. One can get the feeling of sunset “Ennio Morricone” vibes without perhaps thinking to do so. A great outro song for the album that brings it all home in the setting sun. Synth warmth, leaving the audience with a blessed feeling after the dark synth track that came before it.
The band will have lots of new songs to play on the European Summer tour. These new songs will be a great addition to their already great catalog of albums and songs.
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