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INFORMATION:
Ambient, minimalistic and down-right captivating. worriedaboutsatan have created a masterpiece of an album as they take you through the depths of electronica. Immersed in weaving, beautiful beats and rhythms, Arrivals is an aural treat that will resonate in the heart and mind. PRESS: “While quite an emotionally exhausting hour, this is a thoroughly engaging album that will no doubt appeal to a wide cross-section of alternative instrumental music fans, embracing everything from glitchy IDM to ambient drone, and at times even crossing over into grime/dubstep territory. Good stuff.” SIC “This is consummate mood-music that glints with striking details. There's the high, held tone cycling through the nocturnal drive of "I Am a Crooked Man", with its nearly visual wobble. There's the telegraphic progression of "Pissing About", a stable axis in a prismatic blur of texture and rhythm. There's the strangulated glitch-melody of "History Is Made at Night", seeming always on the verge of breaking into lush glissando. Who needs guitars when you've got string-like themes scudding majestically above rippling sonar blips, scratchy-record percussion giving form to rushing waters and howling winds? The music is so immaculately tasteful that it's hard to figure out how they chose such a silly band name. (It's from a song by the Belgian band dEUS, which makes it no less silly.) But they got the album title right-- they've arrived.” PITCHFORK 7.6 “So what makes Worriedaboutsatan special? Their sound more so than their name. The guys make a foundation out of dots and dashes to build a wall of sound upon. You would expect the Morse code bit to come out on top and the reverb to form the bass/base, but somehow that doesn’t happen. Listen with headphones and you’ll feel them take up residence in the giant bean bag that is your brain.” COMFORT COMES “the sound of a new branch of the post-rock family tree, where electronica is less incorporated into existing formulas, more encouraged to dominate proceedings and ultimately sculpt a vision of the future never before apparent. Touchstones are there so that the listener never feels truly alone in the world worriedaboutsatan create, but step off the path just an inch and you’ll be tumbling through patterns and motifs both unfamiliarly alien and unsettlingly absorbing.” CLASH “The whole “post-rock without guitars” (yes, worriedaboutsatan do have guitars...) thing can be like saying “post-rock without the rock” but it sums up significant portions – if not most – of Arrivals. Yet there are always exceptions to boundaries which seem cut and dry but are knocked and chipped at by pioneers. It would smack more than faintly on hyperbole to say that this is a pioneering album, regardless of its qualities. I shan't waste any more words on what genre the sea of sound that is Arrivals fits into. Let's just call it an hour's worth of creepy, organic, nearly always-tension-building electronic ambience which certainly owes as much, if not more, to the hidden influences as the obvious ones.” DROWNED IN SOUND 8/10 |
RELEASE DATE:
May 2009 TRACKLISTING: 1. one down 2. evil dogs 3. . 4. i am a crooked man 5. pissing about 6. .. 7. history is made at night 8. you’re in my thoughts 9. ... 10. all things but you are silent 11. arrivals CREDITS: Gavin Miller / Tom Ragsdale with Tom Morris ARTWORK: John Banks / Gavin Miller LINKS: worriedaboutsatan website |
