What’s with all these jokers getting right into my
headspace about the year we’re having? Atmospheric Romanian trio Valerinne
continue the trend, swirling the melancholy and droning post-rock of A Ghost Year at the periphery of
reality, right at the spot you can’t quite pinpoint without catching it in the
corner of your eye, forever keeping itself at an unfortunate distance. Hidden behind
clouds of sweet, thick drone, A Ghost
Year was the year we could have had, the one where we all hugged and
everyone was healthy. That year is a total figment right now.
For a group billed as a noisy one, Valerinne really
shows immense restraint, going full Eno in their cavernous, supernatural concoctions.
Each of these five lengthy tracks descend like specters, obscuring reality and
intent and infiltrating your mind, body, and soul. They warp your outlook until
you’ve shifted focus to the Valerinne way of thinking, the dream of a different
life through a different lens that seems so impossible a majority of the time
these days. But don’t fool yourself into thinking A Ghost Year is the real year – we still have to keep our eyes
ahead, because we’ve got a lot of work to do. But for a quick excursion to
somewhere totally other, Valerinne
has you totally covered with A Ghost Year.
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