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STERN - BONE TURQUOISE
Taking in Stern's newest album "Bone
Turquoise" these past few months has had me returning continually
seeking to repeat an experience and finding only strange, gorgeous
remnants of memory. Bone Turquoise's alien
landscape opens up fully functioning from the onset. Immaculate
fluidity is sluiced by shifts in color that keep it integrally sound.
The foreignness that sustains allows the senses' gradual adjustment to
their new environment yet flows into new forms before full assimilation
can be achieved. Remarkably the throes, the harsh rejection of constant
transit one would expect are nowhere to be found. An expert smoothness
navigates the change. Watching these worlds move before you knowing
the pace is not your own equips Bone Turquoise
with a cinematic quality of remove. Its drama incapable of disruption.
Its feel cerebral and foggy yet colorful. Embedded within one finds
qualities that run parallel with the music of Shudder to Think, Faith No
More, etc. That Stern is comprised of ex-Time
of Orchids, and current Kayo Dot members certainly yields further notion
of its palette; yet, the aforementioned cinematic environment is
unique, thick, and immeasurably surrounds these germs to set afloat
something all its own. Its essence engulfs them; the glint of their
presence ensorcelling the listener from within the flow. The shifting
integrity of alien lands redefines the experience tirelessly and we are
left with a pronounced lingering essence and the unmistakable notion
that something great has transpired.
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