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Phragments - New Kings And New Queens LTD. EDITION (2013) [Modern Classical/Dar ...
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P R E S E N T S
Phragments - New Kings And New Queens
Ripper : D2H Army Genre : Ambient
Supplier : D2H Army Release Date : 18-06-2013
Source : CDDA Year : 2013
Type : Album Tracks : 06
Encoder : Lame 3.98 Quality : VBRkbps/44,1kHz/Joint-Stereo
Label : Malignant Records Catalog # : TumorCD58
Url : [url]http://www.discogs.com/Phragments-New-Kings-And-New-Queens/release/45[/url]
T R A C K L I S T
Track Title Track Time
01 Chapter I_ The Foundations Shatter (03:05)
02 Chapter II_ New Kings (03:50)
03 Chapter III_ Bridge Burners (05:25)
04 Chapter IV_ When Memory Fails, We Disintegrate (10:02)
05 Chapter V_ New Queens (03:53)
06 Chapter VI_ Aftermath (05:45)
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TOTALS : 49,7 MB / 32:00 min
R E L E A S E I N F O
"New Kings and New Queens" marks the newest release since Phragments' 2008 "Earth Shall Not
Cover Their Blood", and it presents a very nuanced project that combines with startling
proficiency the realms of the neo-classic and the dark. Here, the atmosphere is the night,
and the night is long and dark. Parallels could be drawn to many other groups, but
Phragment's "New Kings and New Queens" is something that's worth listening to on its own-
it's akin to an art piece, an art piece that should be listened to, analyzed, and admired.
We begin our journey with the dark and brooding "The Foundations Shatter", a track that
gives the illusion of proceeding slowly when it is actually moving very quickly. Very
minimalistic and atmospheric here, very False Mirror esque. The sound bridge to track 2 is
also very well done, though at times the background noise can be a bit grainy.
Track 2, "New Kings", begins with a very long and modulating note that ends with the low
piano key. The brooding darkness gathers and waits. The piano notes, reminiscient of video-
game composer Inon Zur's plays, are very dark and not overdone at all. Rather, they might be
a little "underdone", yet one can't fault the sheer artistry that is the solid composition
of the track. "New Kings" flows very quickly from one viewpoint in the macabre palace to
another, yet it does so with an interesting energy.
You probably won't realize that Track 3 has begun unless you eye your player. The sound
bridging here is impeccably solid, and were it not for the stab of synthetic noise at the
beginning of "Bridge Burners". The stab rears its head amidst the gathered clouds of shadow
again and again, always surprising amidst the very soft, very Anja sounds. In fact, most of
these tracks sound like something inspired by dark ambient group Anja's "Anatomy of a
Nightmare". Here though, it is more polished and sorted as compared to that other project. A
softer, almost grinding synth sounds out the rest of "Bridge Burners"'s soundbed, and the
song soon bridges onto the next.
Track 4, the poignantly named "When Memory Fails, We Disintigrate" begins with a much more
heavy and coporeal tone. The opening is fairly monotonous, but does not bore for long as the
song quickly gives itself depth and reverb through other synths and sounds. These sounds
quite suddenly drop out with the tone, leaving us with ephemeral noises that leave as
quickly as they appear. The tonal buildup is slow and subtle, utilizing unique sounds not
found in the other tracks. For best listening, turn down the lights to a low glimmer- I
found candlelight to work best, as this is dark- but not a despairing dark. This is a scary,
twilit dark.
The sound bridge to Track 5 is once again barely noticeable, and "New Queens" begins with a
low and expansive sound somewhere between an organ and a piano. The opening is almost an
exact mirror to the opening on Track 2's "New Kings", which is to be somewhat expected as
the tracks are twins of each other on the eponymous album. After hearing "New Kings" already
though, "New Queens" doesn't build upon the rhythm sufficiently- it's too similar to what
we've already heard.
The final track, "Aftermath", begins with a low collection of sounds similar to some of the
other, non "New" tracks. Here, rather than progressing from a high note to a low soundbed,
we hear a low soundbed morph into a gradually increasing note. The note quickly drops out,
leaving us in silence very quickly. This is actually the end of the album- even though there
s 2 more minutes of silence at the end of the track.
"New Kings and New Queens" is not a perfect album, as it seems to be drawing from a pool of
material that is a bit small, but it is an album worth listening to. At times, music
provides good background noise to the other mundane tasks of our secular lives, and it is
here that the latest of Phragments' albums succeeeds. So, if you want expertly crafted
soundscapes of very minimalistic dark neo-classical, you know where to go (Malignant
Records).
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