Beneath Wind and Waves - Non-être
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Neil DiamondMonoganon
Pete Yorn
Sigur Ros
Release Date
01/10/2012
Label
Self ReleasedTracklist
1. Transference2. Loop Me In
3. To Be Special
4. Angry Love
5. I Am You
6. God Said
7. Persephone
8. Hold On Tight
9. The War Time Days
10. 98
11. [Counter]Transference
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Good music leaves an impression upon you, it dog-ears a small space between your ears and sticks there for weeks, months, even years. Bad music does too. I still wake up in a cold sweat some nights, singing the chorus to Runner Runner’s “So Obvious.” But then there’s mediocre music, an album that does absolutely nothing. Unobtrusive, it fills an otherwise empty room. Background music.
Beneath Wind and Waves certainly isn’t good. Each folky diddy is as flaccid and washed-out as the next. It’s as if the band are afraid of waking you up by playing too loud. But they’re not necessarily bad either. Non-être is populated by enough quality songs, like the call-and-return duet “Angry Love” with enough musical presence to register in your conscious mind and not be filtered out as white noise in your sensory perception. No, Beneath Wind and Waves fit quite snugly in the category of “inoffensive and forgettable.” Non-être is the soundtrack to laying in a pine-laced, sunlit meadow and staring into the middle distance.
There just isn’t enough here, like a short story without a plot. The songs lack any of the tension and build-up inherent in post-rock, or any of the dreamy, reverb-soaked ambience of shoegaze. Non-être is relaxing, but it’s relaxing to a fault. Gosh, even this review is suffering, but there just isn’t anything here to cover. Bottom line, if you’re in need of some quiet music that won’t startle Nana during her basket-weaving classes down at the Community College Annex, this is the album for you.
--Zach Roth
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