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Kyron — Ascending Plume of Faces
(Bandcamp Library of the Occult, 2021, LP / DL)

by Henry Schneider, Published 2022-03-21

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João Branco Kyron of Portugal’s Beautify Junkyards is also a solo performer recording as Kyron. Whereas Beautify Junkyards produces neo-psych music, Kyron’s new album Ascending Plume of Faces is pure electronics. Released on Library of the Occult, I was expecting to hear scary, dark, gothic atmospheres. Instead the album is a lo-fi collection of thirteen instrumentals that sound they were recording under a heavy blanket. There is a slow dreamy quality to many of the instrumental tracks, but nothing really sinister or occult to my ears. The song titles are quite evocative, almost Lovecraftian: “The Dwellers at the Gate of Silent Memory,” “Vision through the Sense of Touch,” and “Stealing the Fire from Heaven,” to name a few. However, the music doesn’t live up to the promise of the titles. The track title “The Feast of the Supersensualists” sounds intriguing, but unfortunately the muffled sluggish music made me think more of the gluttonous Jabba the Hut than a supersensualist. Ascending Plume of Faces falls flat for me, mostly because it sounds like it was recorded on a 1 ⅞ ips tape recorder. I find the album an amateurish attempt at what others have successfully executed:  Antonius Rex, Attrition, and Lycia for instance.

Filed under: New releases, 2021 releases

Related artist(s): João Branco Kyron

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http://libraryoftheoccult.bandcamp.com/album/ascending-plume-of-faces

 

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