4.0 out of 5 stars
Icarus - I Tweet The Birdy Electric, May 17, 2011
This review is from: I Tweet the Birdy Electric (Audio CD)
Much more musical and slightly less abstract that
Six Soviet Misfits, Icarus' album for Leaf,
I Tweet the Birdy Electric sees them diving straight into melodic free-jazz/post-rock. So something like freepost jazzrock. "Ganglion" still has off-kilter percussion, but your attention is drawn to the topside sounds of guitar and electronic piano, even as the percussion grows more insistent and takes over by the end. "Three False Starts" has a dulcimer-like plucked strings in different iterations, coming in and out over the length of this long, meandering track. The buzz of strings in "Gnog" mutates into something melancholy and dirge-like, while "Mutations" is composed of different instrumental stabs. "Birdz Max" revels in its barely-restrained chaos, birdcalls notwithstanding. Odd and compelling.
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