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January 4th, 2007 by Paul Hayes (Permalink)
Label: Sedgemoor Year: 2006 Add Comments |
From ye wilde British west emerges Silver Pyre - hailing from a barn in Somerset and bellowing under “the light of George’s day”. Sedgemoor Recordings proudly pronounce their first release, ‘EP 1’ with the commanding anthemic track “Sovereign”. You could equate this to a Man Man escapade minus the Turkish circus act, if such musicians had the resources to make a video it would undoubtedly be filled with visions of a man atop a billowy hill roaring down to some medieval hamlet.
With such a stark characteristic opening the progression of the 4-track EP is nothing short of remarkable. “Shurton Bars Ammonite” takes our boisterous countryman and forces him into a dreamy electronic catharsis as if silenced by sedative. Sounds of old and reverb of new meld seamlessly; an accompaniment, if you will, to the fossiled shale shores of Somerset gloomily overshadowed by a nearby nuclear power station.
That sedative dose does not wear off; down to level 3 on the Glasgow Coma scale of things. “Filament” echoes a discordant interpretation of pounding waves against barren rock in the starkest of Siler Pyre’s offerings. We are all Antonius Block, Death is nearby and “Saline” our epiphany.
G.S.Fawle, in all of his ghostly isolation has succeeded in his attempts to create an archaic masterpiece. Do not miss this one.
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