Timeslips & Chimeras＜限定盤＞

2010年の結成から11年目の円熟味が入ってきた新作!!

デジタルのみだった2020年リリースの「TIMESLIPS」でまだまだ鋭いポストロック×エレクトロニカを響かせていたオーストラリア産TANGENTS。そこに双子関係にあるという新曲6曲を追加した完全版作品「TIMESLIPS&CHIMERAS」がまさかの登場!

ポストロック×エレクトロニカを牽引してきたイメージがあるTEMPORARY RESIDENCE。そのイメージにふさわし過ぎる暗く鋭利な打ち込みと、神々しい光をはなつようなSEとプリミティヴな構成はこれまでのポストロックレジェンドと比べても、どこか躍動的で切羽詰まった感触が!影響元であるFOUR TET、TORTOISE、CAN達のリズムアプローチを丸呑みし、一段と立体的になったリズムは現在とてつもなく珍しい部類!

2018年作「NEW BODIES」がオーストラリアの音楽賞にノミネートされ、世界規模の飛躍を期待させる存在にまでなったTANGENTS。活動11年目の円熟した空気感と、ポストロック名門レーベルに所属しているという事実が合わさって新しいポストロックを切り開くのでしょうか!?

Australian group Tangents have continually tightened their approach to rhythmic improvisation, with each successive release sounding more natural without fitting into any categories or conventions. Timeslips & Chimeras is a double album that displays the groups gift for spontaneous creation as well as their post-production studio creativity. Originally released digitally in 2020, the first half, Timeslips, was mainly recorded in a single day, and is more closely based on improvisations. The individual tracks seem too focused to be excerpts cut from an endless jam session, but theres nothing rigid about them, and they flow in unpredictable ways. Vessel is an early standout, with a shimmering Rhodes melody recurring like a flash of a poignant memory, and Nick Calligeros distant trumpet playing lighting up the night sky in the background. Old Organs is a prime example of how Tangents dissolve boundaries between synthetic and organic instrumentation, with intricate, raindrop-like beat patterns similar to the grey-area drumnbass of producers like ASC and Sam KDC, later joined by propulsive live drumming. Debris is slower and uneasier, with much heavier layers of guitar noise recalling Mogwai at their most imposing, pushing into full force by the tracks end. While Timeslips is already quite technology-forward, second part Chimeras is more deconstructive, with more post-production effects and overdubs. Tracks like Lilliputian and Timeslip are murkier and less stable than some of the bands other pieces, and Lost Track has more broken electronic beats while maintaining a jazzy sophistication. Chimera is more of a tense ambient study in which a stately drum beat and solemn violin and piano eventually emerge. The double album compellingly demonstrates how Tangents create their own distinctive musical language, then rewrite it as they go along. ~ Paul Simpson