Seies

Larsen | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 28, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Important Records
• ASIN: B000EBGEUU
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #654,373 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Snow

2. Mother

3. Rever

4. 2nd

5. Momi

6. Haula

7. Marzia

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What ever happened to post rock?, December 20, 2006

By 

razdragat (Houma, LA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Seies (Audio CD)

It realized it had gone as far as it knew how, and went back home. Godspeed YBE did away with samples and crescendos to concentrate on structures, and has been sleeping ever since. Mice Parade added some vocals, became another jazz band. The Swords Project turned in its homework, made some spacey pop and gave up.

This album by Larsen has a sense of picking up where some of those bands left off, not at their last albums, but at their peaks. In tone, SeieS bookends a sense of spiritual celebration in tracks 2-5 with ominous brooding at the beginning and end, with strings and ethereal vocals filling in the gaps between guitar and rhythm figures. Several tracks have some words, others have just word-sounds, but in general the voices won't distract you; they function merely as some odd organic instrument. You won't find as much of a drive to crescendo as some other post-rock outfits, but more thorough, patient exploration of light and dark textures.

This is probably one of my two favorite albums I've bought this year, the other being Bonnie Prince Billy's The Letting Go. On one hand, the two have almost nothing to do with each other. On the other, with their shared senses of dread and awe, and lush instrumentation, they sit quite well right next to one another.

If any of the above appeals at all, just buy the album outright. Listening to 30-second samples won't give you any better an idea, and it might be tough to find a friend to borrow it from or a CD store with it in stock to preview. When it arrives in its little cardboard slip, you'll be relieved to find that post-rock isn't dead after all.