If, like me, quite quickly in the life of conscious listening you came across a trip-hop and raised you on sad, alienated teenagers, at “262626” You will feel at home. This is the same slow pace, generally a dark atmosphere, full of flavors hidden in the background. Disturbing melodies are immersed in the reverbs, and the stretches from under the background only complement the climate.
“262626” is definitely an album for those who miss their work Pati Yang, Anji Tiler Whether Beth Gibbonswhich potential successors leaned into other music regions.
Although when I hear such “To build a Home”I think it is music whose inspirations run even further. In this glittering drums and post-rock guitar fog, Icelandic inspirations with particular emphasis on Múm can certainly be caught. The same in traveling synthesizers and industrial sounds “Nothing” I can’t not feel the influence of Nine Inch Nails.
At the same time, I constantly feel that “262626” has a lot of Gothic sensitivity. Something that shows what we would deal with if Jarboe and Swans were interested in electronic music instead of guitar music. Especially that with your most -low, irregular vocals, it is easy to find sabbath tracks. Which particularly sounds in the ambient “Mad about you” At some point, it becomes mainly a trance vocal performance with regular artist’s regular impacts, nor specially percussive, nor melodic. IN “Dá-me a tua mão” We are already entering the atmosphere that I would accuse The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble.
These numbers recorded in foreign languages also hide small works in Polish. It cannot be underestimated “Don’t be fooled”in which Holy Høly in the texts openly plays with phraseological relationships, creating a logical string from them. “Jelly candy” Instead, they introduce surprisingly a lot of lightness, which you will not experience too much on this album.
If I were to pick on something on “262626”, the fact that while the vocals are well led in themselves, I am not necessarily a fan of how they are mixed. Sometimes he would dream about introducing more analog heat to them, in places the reverberation imposed on them makes them too detached from the music, and the compressor could clearly work harder.
Yes, there is a shadow of a chance that such treatments are intentional to bring us closer to how the plates were mixed in the nineties. Because yes, there are such songs as Portisheadowe “From the ashes”, In which the composition and production work perfectly, they are incredibly intriguing, and the vocals by approaching its sound seems too expansive. But a moment later it comes in “Endless game”in which the balance is preserved in the right way.
But I am whining, because in fact I have not found a record for a long time that coped so well with an attempt to shift this characteristic, freezed sound of the sound from the 90s. Even if it is a very good music, maybe too often based on inspirations, I already know that I will be intrigued by Holy Høly.
Holy Høly, “262626”, Records apnea