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93MillionMilesFromTheSun-Fall Into Nothing-(WLACD001)-Limited Edition-CD-FLAC-2015-SHGZ
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Artist..: 93MillionMilesFromTheSun
Album…: Fall Into Nothing
GENRE….: Indie
STYLE….: Shoegaze
LABEL….: White Light SCENE…..: 2015-07-18
BITRATE..: 1039kbps avg STORE…..: 2015-05-15
ENCODER..: FLAC 1.2.1 -8 -V TRACKS….: 15
SIZE…..: 566.8MB SOURCE….: CD
URL..: http://www.facebook.com/93MillionMilesFromTheSun
– TRACKLIST
1 Intro 2:33
2 Reflections 5:35
3 Feel It’s Real 5:05
4 Watch Her Fall 4:49
5 Interlude I 1:42
6 Sabs Is Free 3:45
7 Flying 10:40
8 Interlude II 1:52
9 Sunshine Girl 7:03
10 New Day Comes 5:01
11 Nothing Left Inside 4:53
12 Interlude III 1:13
13 See Forever 4:52
14 A Million Miles Away 10:58
15 Outro 3:05
Total Playtime: 73:06
The new 93millionmilesfromthesun (93mmfts) album, Fall Into Nothing, is a
beauty. For folks who are already fans of the band, I can pretty much
guarantee you’re going to love it. If you don’t know them, I assume that if
you’re reading this review you have some experience with — and fondness for —
music in the Shoegaze/Dreampop/etc galaxy of styles. If that’s true, please,
give this one a try. You’ll be glad you did.
If I had to come up with a quick descriptor of the general 93mmfts sound, I’d
call it “sonically dense.” Across three albums, several EPs, and a
compilation of unreleased, remastered, and rerecorded tracks, they’ve pushed
the boundaries of mid-tempo, fuzz-drenched, guitar-driven rock in
impressively creative ways. Fall Into Nothing feels like the culmination of
everything they’ve learned about building textures, creating moods, and
layering basic elements of voice, guitar, bass, and drums into emotionally
evocative songs. It’s a mature and thoughtful work, from the production and
mixing to the way the sequencing of the songs carries the listener on a
journey that feels like a natural progression every step of the way.
In reading reviews of past 93mmfts albums, I’ve often run across comparisons
to Slowdive, and that connection never really rang true for me until this
album. Slowdive didn’t have such a consistently saturated sound, but they
had a comparable mastery of tone and mood. Another album that came to mind
repeatedly as I listened to Fall Into Nothing was Bowery Electric’s
self-titled first album. Although their sophomore effort, Beat, seems to get
more press, their debut offers listeners a voyage through a fuzzed-out
dreamscape that could be Fall Into Nothing’s gentler cousin.
Fall Into Nothing’s opening “Intro” enters with the sound of falling rain,
and then brings in slowly shifting guitars that ride the edge of feedback,
sounding as though Windy & Carl might have wandered in for a guest spot. From
there, we move into “Reflections”, which is when we know for sure that this
is 93mmfts. Compared to prior albums, the vocals ride a bit lower in the mix
on Fall Into Nothing. Without a lyric sheet, it would be hard to tell you
what the songs are about. Words come through here and there, but the main
vocal contribution is to the overall tenor of the songs… it’s the emotion
that comes through in the singing that’s important.
The mood across whole album is one of melancholy and longing.
Even tracks whose titles sound brighter, like “Sunshine Girl” and “New Day
Comes” give a sense that maybe the sunshine girl is one who got away, and the
new day is arriving with thunderclouds on the horizon. The tracks on Fall
Into Nothing aren’t defined by unexpected tempo changes or catchy vocal
hooks, although there are moments that stand out. “Watch Her Fall”, the title
track from the EP that preceded the album, has a memorable guitar melody that
runs through the last two-thirds of the song, and it also benefits from a
strong bass line. While guitars may be the stars of the show on Fall Into
Nothing, the bass is an invaluable supporting player, bringing a meaty low
end to the crunchy, fuzzy guitar layer underlying most of the songs.
“Watch Her Fall” segues into “Interlude I”, one of five short pieces
(including the first and last tracks) that are a key part of the sequencing.
They don’t break the album into thematic blocks, but they add variety to the
pacing, letting the drums and bass drop out and sending the guitar off on
solo journeys…while “Interlude I” carries on with the noise, “Interlude II”
lets the guitar shimmer and chime — again, Windy & Carl come to mind — and
“Interlude III” slows things down before “See Forever” throws down the
album’s most distinctive intro, with a prominent drum beat and a guitar line
that treads between a shimmer and a whine.
In contrast to the short interludes, Fall Into Nothing includes a
couple epics – “Flying” and “A Million Miles Away” both approach the
11-minute mark without feeling overextended. The hypnotic “Flying” turns down
the fuzz, letting the vocals come more to the forefront. “A Million Miles
Away” is a noisier affair, and a fitting climax to the album before “Outro”
returns us to the rainy day where we started, with more atmospheric guitar
work slowly winding things up and setting us free to go off and reflect on
the 73-minute adventure we’ve now completed.
In closing, I’d offer a couple suggestions for getting maximal enjoyment out
of this album. First off, give it a try in different settings… blasting it
in the car and listening to it through a good pair of headphones offer very
different insights into the music. Also, if you run the audio through an
equalizer, this is the sort of album that can change dramatically depending
on the settings, because different elements get pulled out of the mix. It’s
worth playing around a bit and seeing what you might discover.
*
This three man shoegaze collective from Doncaster are about to drop one
whopper of an album on fans. Other than EPs, it is their first full length
since 2012’s Towards the Light. They started out in 2007 ahead of the
shoegaze wave that has deluged fans in the past couple of years, and they are
better than many of the bands out there. The band combines spacey elements
with solid musicianship, and seems to bypass most of the stereotypical MBV
studio trickery that plagues many shoegaze bands. Not to knock MBV, or even
the Mary Chain, but it gets old after awhile. OK, maybe we hear a little MBV
in the up front “Watch Her Fall” (culled from the EP of the same name), but
it’s more subtle than other bands. In “Feel Its Real”, Nick Mainline
(Noble)’s vocals float to the surface and are easily discernible, as opposed
to other songs where it’s more about the feel than the message.
“Interlude I”, “Interlude II”, and “Interlude III” are short instrumental
pieces between longer, dreamier passages. I am guessing that the band is
incredibly loud in a live setting, though the volume here is interspersed
with softer, ringing tones. And what about “Flying”? The title is
appropriate, for this gorgeous tune soars straight from the gate and keeps
going straight out to the ten minute mark! Talk about jamming the hammer
down. “Sunshine Girl” is cut from simpler cloth, but is no less majestic than
other towering tunes on this album. “New Day Comes” ups the ante with an
instantly electric vibe, and Nick is buried deep in the mix on this one. How
many delicious layers do you have to swim through to get to its base? It
hardly matters, really, when you are swooning along to this headphone
friendly song (headphones are really the only way to fly with multilayered
shoegaze).
“Nothing Left Inside” is airier and easier to get inside for new fans of this
genre, and maybe it could be a single! As could the absolutely terrific
“Reflections”, which follows the opening summer storm of “Intro”. This pair
of tunes is the perfect way to experience 93’s sound, containing all the
hallmarks of great shoegaze. It shimmers and crashes, even while it tiptoes
into dream pop territory. I am almost reminded of great lost band Lord John,
who absolutely ruled this sort of deep well of psychedelic noise. “See
Forever” has a killer bass line and a twisted guitar riff to launch it, and
drummer Jase Burns lays a solid foundation for Nick and bassist Rob Hogg to
kill it here. Final song before the closing storm (literally) of “Outro* is
the 11 minute, “A Million Miles Away” (why not 93?). Imagine taking the
electric drones of Brian Jonestown Massacre and mixing in some vintage Boo
Radleys, would that wet your whistle? 93 builds it up gradually and keeps it
there for 10:58. And that’s what it’s all about, ‘gazer fans. This album is
an endurance run of sorts; the energy never lets up, and it shimmers about
your head in heat waves. It’s the perfect soundtrack for almost summer in
these parts.
*
93MillionMilesFromTheSun have had a very productive time of it in the
recording studio over recent months. Following the release of comeback EP
Watch Her Fall in February, the experienced drone/space rock trio from
Doncaster have now released their fourth album in the shape of Fall Into
Nothing, which at fifteen tracks and over eighty minutes in length must
surely qualify for a ‘magnum opus’ description on sheer scale alone. Whether
it is to be considered as the band’s ‘greatest work’ is, however, very much
open to debate.
One thing we do know for certain is what a new record by
93MillionMilesFromTheSun is going to sound like. From their 2008 debut and
self-titled album, through to this year’s releases, the band deal almost
exclusively in an interpretation of aesthetic noise and effects that is best
described as an equal part amalgamation of A Gilded Eternity era Loop, and
Ride, probably just before they went Blank Again. In one sense, this
unswerving commitment to a very particular arrangement, to repeated tones and
harmonisations, can be truly admired, both in terms of the dedication itself,
but also because it has often resulted in some truly spectacular moments.
However, the lack of development in the band’s sound, the apparent reluctance
to introduce new elements to the mix, or to experiment with song structures
and rhythms, is at times, during a very long album of similar sounding
orchestration, painfully evident.
Having said that, I do consider myself a huge fan of 93MMFTS’ signature
sound, and following a field recording of thunder and heavy rain (presumably
they didn’t have to travel far to capture it) that acts as an introduction,
Nick Noble’s array of guitar effects arrive, initially sounding quite a lot
like the weather: windswept, foreboding and capable, at a moment’s notice, of
unleashing a ferocious and unremitting storm of enormous proportion. The
album is segued, from start to finish, indicating perhaps the Artist’s desire
to provide the listener with a captivating and immersive listening
experience. Unfortunately however, Fall Into Nothing’s heavens never truly
open, and this delivers an end result that is instead slightly overblown, a
little bit claustrophobic and really rather frustrating.
The first characteristic of 93MMFTS’s previous output that made them sound
exciting and engaging was the wonderful depth and expansiveness of their
heavily-effected sound, and its ability to evoke feelings of loss, desolation
and calm by way of an enormous wall of beautiful guitar noise. Secondly, in
each of their previous albums, alongside these moments of jaw-dropping
elegance there have been some monumental sonic assaults on the senses. Both
calling cards are largely conspicuous by their absence on this album, and
leaves the band sounding reigned in and unimaginative.
Changes of pace and composition would have helped Fall Into Nothing
enormously, but the first part of the album really struggles to hold my
attention, as each mid-paced track follows an almost identikit pattern. It
says a lot when the two most interesting bits of music during the opening
half are the two white noise interludes that feature as effective mood
pieces. After this, ‘Sunshine Girl”s lovely, lilting chord refrain provides
some much needed colour and harmony to proceedings at track 9, while ‘Nothing
Left Inside’ ups the tempo, introduces a chorus, and provides the highlight
of the album by a country mile.
It pains me to write a negative review about a band that I have a huge amount
of time for, but after the promise of the earlier EP this year, Fall Into
Nothing is a disappointment as a long-player, simply because I know
93MillionMilesFromTheSun can deliver so much more. For those discovering
93MillionMilesFromTheSun for the first time with this album, there is
absolutely nothing intrinsically wrong with the record, and it would
certainly provide a basic introduction to this special band. But with the
exception of the two tracks mentioned by name, there would be no other
candidates for my eighty minute “best of” compilation, which would provide a
far more explosive and enthralling starting point than what is available
here.
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