グラスゴーの男女4ピース、TREMBLING BELLSによるデビュー・アルバム!フェアポート・コンヴェンション等を彷彿させる60年代のブリティッシュ・サウンドを軸にしながら、サイケデリック・ノイズやアンセム・ロックの要素も取り入れた繊細かつ壮大な音楽性には圧巻。フォークだからと言って決して堅苦しいものではないことを示すかのように、ジャンルから飛び出るのではなく、境界線を引っ張り、曲げ、その自由な演奏が生む臨場感溢れる素晴らしい作品!
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The Times - "Trembling Bells forcibly mate incompatible musical species; but, God help them, the staggering, slavering, stumbling creature they have spawned is a handsome mongrel"
Rovi
The debut full-length from this English four-piece boasts a strong preoccupation with the English folk scene of the late `60s and early '70s, and blends harmonies imported from traditional English folk ballads with a restless spirit of experimentation. On "I Listed All of the Velvet Lessons," soprano Lavina Blackwell summons the spirit of the great Susan Collins while the band works up a fantastic organ-led drone behind her. Elsewhere the group dabbles in disorienting psychedelia, meditative, Bert Jansch-influenced guitar work, and Byrds-like vocal harmonies, making for an ambitiously eclectic album that manages to retain a distinctively individualistic sound while paying tribute to some of the most talented English musicians of the folk era.|
Rovi