EYELESS IN GAZA - Bitter Apples

Format: CD

Label & Cat.Number: Ambivalent Scale Records A-SCALE 020

Release Year: 1995

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95er Album der legendären englischen experimental-Wave-Folk-Band! Hier mischen sich song-orientierte Stücke mit klangvollen, sphärischen Experimenten ab, wie immer bei EIG sehr leidenschaftlich melancholisch durch MARTYN BATES Stimme..

“Following the head-expanding soundscape world of '94's "Saw You In Reminding Pictures", "Bitter Apples" comes announced as a return to song structures and a live (acoustic guitars, bass, drums) folk feel: a matured EIG reinventing the brand of avant-folk song first heard on their "Drumming The Beating Heart" album over a decade ago. Lyrics such as those on "Bushes And Briars" ("through bushes and through briars / I lately made my way / all for to hear the young birds sing / and the lambs to skip and play") immediately announce the folk influence, but any hint of preciousness about such a style is dispelled by the ghostly a-capella treatment of Bates' voice, treated with vocal effects that make him sound like a possessed changeling, wrapped in his own tingling harmonies. Martyn Bates' voice is unique - expressive in hushing to a sense of menace, or delicate and weary, or surging with the power to hit the rafters. He occasionally retains a slight rasp, an edge, to his voice from the first punk-inflected vocals of early EIG. A comparison? Impossible.“ [Misfit City]

“Eyeless In Gaza’s strength has always been in never fitting into any norm. As a thorny post-punk duo they were uncompromising but lyrical, with Martyn Bates’s serpentine, untrammelled vocals forefronted. They fizzled out in ’87 but have fizzled in again over the last few years. On Bitter Apples Eyeless have delivered their best album in 12 years, recalling their sublime, semi-forgotten apex Rust Red September. Like Bates’s recent collaborations with Bill Laswell and Derek Jarman’s former sonic collaborator Simon Fisher-Turner, it suggests his unique voice is finally getting its due recognition.[Mojo Magazine]

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