Keplers Odd - Strena Seu de Nive Sexangula (A New Yearâ��s Gift of Hexagonal Snow)

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4...according to our Phil on Wed 02 Jul, 2008.

Onto Sweden's Keplers Odd with their 3rd album called Strena Seu de Nive Sexangula (A New Year's Gift of Hexagonal Snow). This is their first commercially available album in the UK and it's certainly the first time I've heard them. Also the label is new to me.... Fractured Space Records. A promising start for the label this one. Dark ambient drones and throbs creating a glacial dark icy wonderland in my mind. At times it's quite industrial sounding and it's not for the faint hearted as some tracks are quite harsh (though compared to artists like Prurient it still probably sounds like Abba). I'd like to see these live so they could fill my belly with their weird noises and make me feel all strange. It also makes me think a lot of the possessed forest in Evil Dead 2. That's a funny film..... Anyhoo this is dark and swirly and it's kind of making me feel a bit weird now so I'm turning it off but I do like it.

From the darkest and coldest heart of Sweden comes the trio known as Keplers Odd, and FracturedSpacesRecords is pleased to announce that “Strena Seu de Nive Sexangula”, their third CD album, is the first official release on the UK’s newest quality underground music label. Featuring seven tracks of noisy yet subtly ambient guitar-driven sonic attacks, eerily redolent of the icy cold mysterious aurora-wrapped landscapes prevalent throughout Northern Europe, inhabited by creatures and monsters spawned from the myths & legends told around campfires over countless generations. Indeed, Keplers Odd have themselves spawned a monster of an album, creating textures and ambiences far beyond the normal run of over-driven guitar noisefests – yes, there is unalloyed power here, but there is also quiet subtlety, sinister atmospherics, and deeply dark occult moods. Ancient abandoned buildings, dark musty corridors, sinister forces at play – it’s all here in stonking quantities!!
KEPLERS ODD are: Daniel Jansson (Deadwood, STUG 218 & Crest 218 [Crest & STUG 218 collaborative project]), Magnus Moilala (Crest & Crest 218 [Crest & STUG 218 collaborative project]), and Kristina Persson (Viper Trail). Currently they are to be seen rampaging around Gothenburg, Sweden.

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