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Stem Stem In Electro, by Hrsta (CD on Dub)

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Rating: happy This record left our Brian feeling happy.

That Constellation label are back with a CD/LP by Hrsta. Nice post rock stuff which starts off like Quickspace on mogadon being shat through a wind tunnel. As is the nature of this bleak & apocolyptic Canadian imprint, there's big desolate instrumental passages & a kind of neo classical longing present throughout proceedings. The usual parallels to be drawn with Godspeed etc but with elements of Thalia Zhedek & maybe Broken Dog for instance. Good stuff!

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Stem Stem In Electro is a gorgeous collection of songs painted in psych-rock tones and timbres, minor-key progressions, and unsettling invocations of haunted transcendentalism. The opening track, with it's trance-like group chorus of "we climb to the light", conjures up a cultish hymn, with Moya's guitar howls and washes underscoring the disquieting downwards chord structure. This sets the stage for "Blood On The Sun", a chilling ballad delivered in Moya's otherworldly voice, like a sedated Daniel Johnson or Wayne Coyne. The trip continues with a delicate instrumental and the tremulous swing of "Folkways Orange". Side two starts with the album's centrepiece, "Swallow's Tail", where a metallic pulse introduces a spooky, magickal romp, channeling the Canterbury spirit of bands like Caravan and Khan. This nod towards 70's-era English prog carries through to the end of the album, terminating in the majestic closing instrumental, with more phantasmic group singing as a final send-off. Stem Stem In Electro casts its spell from the opening notes and paints a shadowy, saturated world surveyed alternately from ground level and from on high. Recorded at Montreal's Hotel2Tango by Howard Bilerman (Silver Mt. Zion, Black Ox Orkestar, Thalia Zedek), Moya enlisted Eric Craven (Hangedup) and Harris Newman (solo, Sackville) as his rhythm section, along with Montreal string-playing stalwarts (and fellow Set Fire to Flame cohorts) Beckie Foon, Gen Heistek and Sophie Trudeau.

 

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