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Stafraenn Hakon
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Description: | Limited deluxe CD in oversized sleeve on Darla |
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| Format: | CD | |
| Genre(s): | Experimental / Abstract | |
| Label: | Darla | |
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£10.29 (sale price!)
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| Availability: | In stock. Dispatched in 1 working day. |
...according to our Brett on 22 April 2010.
I'm not sure if I've heard Stafraenn Hakon before. Stafraenn Hakon isn't a man's name but he is a man and I'm going to describe what he sounds like for other people to read and hopefully feel empowered by. It's kind of a weird mix of post-rock epicness applied to a lo-fi bedroom singer-songwriter and topped off with a Sigur Ros-y 'ambient indie' sort of production style. And it's pretty poppy too! I'm not totally digging the overall feel personally but it's easy to see why people are into him, it's high quality stuff. During the second track I keep thinking he's going to go into one of the verses from 'Stay Together' by Suede, which seems odd, but it's probably not as odd as the riff on the cover of Phil Collins's 'No Jacket Required' that's printed on one side of the pleasing tip-on double gatefold sleeve.
Limited edition of 1000 packaged in a deluxe, six panel, tri-fold "Old style" Stoughton Press 5" CD mini-jacket with satin finish. Catchy melodies and euphoric compositions constitute Stafrænn Hákon´s sixth album, Sanitas. The songs are yet intense and powerful and an adventurous continuation of Stafrænn Hákon´s last release, Gummi that Gaz – eta described as a wild ride the band again took the listener on. Stafrænn Hákon has through the last years been described as a mix of post-rock, lo-fi, ambient guitar & electronica which still holds true to some extent though he with each album takes a giant leap and keeps growing as a musician. On Sanitas, Stafrænn Hákon travels to the other side of the sound spectrum, gradually moving further from electronica, subtle compositions and soothing melodies towards more straight forward, rock orientated compositions which the artist himself often describes as Power-Ambient, currently only audible to left handed polar bears. On Sanitas, Stafrænn Hákon continues his explorative journey, this time by taking another daring but natural step towards more pop oriented and singalong melodies, something that a few years ago sounded unlikely for the ambient post-rock/electronica band.
Tracks:
1/Minning um deig
2/Second to none
3/Emmer Green
4/Ratio 8-3 (at least)
5/Unwind, tender dog!
6/Bright
7/Val Kilmer
8/Sanitas
9/You have to let me borrow this
10/Temporality
11/Provisional Meat
12/The Jerker
