Talkdemonic are back with the bands latest album Various Seasides, that isn't a collection of outtakes but a new album that's a totally solo project from Kevin O'Connor who when he isn't making film soundtracks such as universe or Backwater is based in Brooklyn.
This opens very un-demonically with Barely Dawn that has some organ, set against at times rather intrusive drumming to help wake you up like the cymbals crashing to awaken your hangover.
Playland adds an insistent organ sound and persistent drums to the mix, this brightens up about halfway through with some rather sun dappled oscillating sounds.
Dream Silver sounds about right to read some Acmeist poetry over, as you dream that we really are finally entering that Silver Age. Glass Tower glistens slightly in the early morning sunshine as you gaze out from its upper floors and wonder exactly what he's hitting to make the percussion sound before it's swept away by the organ.
Night Walk is slow and a little ponderous yet almost perfect as an accompaniment for the ladies who walk through the night to raise money for Breast cancer charities. Mile Distant is for that moment when the ladies tired having walked for hours are finally in sight of that final Mile sign, the cymbals gently urging them to pick up the place slightly.
Film Wave has gently ululating presence of a day when the sea is rather becalmed, you're gazing at the almost flat sea before you, this will make you lay back and listen to the glistening water.
Time Conscious is far from hurried with the seconds being tapped out on the cymbals as the keyboards and piano accent things.
For reasons only known to my computer it refused to play Catskills:Autumn Blaze maybe too many memories of baby in that corner. Abandoned City that follows feels rather elegiac and laid back almost not there in places.
Song For Meagen sits somewhere between Harold Faltermayer and Prosthuman in it's slow dance building electronica and like the rest of the album this song is an instrumental.
Dead Composers is a gently evocative requiem for whichever composer you wish to tip your hat too. The album closes with Various Seasides that does feel like the tide is going out and you want to have a paddle in it before the sand becomes too squelchy to walk on easily.
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