Braveyoung - "We Are Lonely Animals" (2011)
This is the new LP from North Carolina's Braveyoung that everyone should be excited about but no one is talking about it. The last recorded material we got from these moody, instrumental sludge rockers was 2009's two song EP "Bloom" (which can also be found on this blog). With the two songs from "Bloom" running just under twenty minutes, I was at first shocked to see that on this new LP that all songs were under ten minutes with the exception of one.
While listening to this for the first time, it unmistakably sounds like a new Braveyoung record, but still feels new, different and refreshing. This album has stripped away a lot of the overly sludgy moods and filled the void with slow, sweeping and building songs that don't stray too far from Mogwai. The recording quality is much better this time around. On "Bloom", during the ambient, almost silent parts, the listener could hear a slight hissing that really disturbed the experience. That hissing is gone, and this record is golden.
This album isn't meant to be listened to in parts, or to skip around on. Put it on and let it play and don't touch it. From the slow, methodical piano chords on the opening track all the way to the sporadic, drawn out and fuzzed out guitar tones of the albums closer, this record will take you on a journey, a beautiful voyage of self-awakening, or you just might think it's awesome record. Either way, don't miss it.
-Kyle Labels: Braveyoung
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