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Review: 'Blueneck'
'King Nine'   

-  Album: 'King Nine' -  Label: 'Denovali'
-  Genre: 'Post-Rock' -  Release Date: '10th November 2014'

Our Rating:
The melody of the tinkling ivories at the start of ‘Counting Out’ evokes DSOTM era Pink Floyd . It opens the album with a soaring guitar and a softly understated approach. The sweeping expanse of ‘Sirens’ isn’t a cover of the I Like Trains song, but it is haunting and sparse and sees an echo-soaked guitar drift across a sedately funereal drum. Like many moments on this album it’s magnificently moody and builds, storm-like, at once beautiful and devastating. Small wonder Blueneck have developed a substantial reputation since their formation at the turn of the millennium.

Shifting away from their delicately poised assimilations of post and prog rock glitchy beats and subdued electronica blossoms into starburst guitars on ‘Man of Lies’. What makes ‘King Nine’ such a successful album is that nothing’s overdone: there’s balance and composure at every turn, even when they’re whipping up a sonic tempest. Atmospheric and laced with melancholy, it’s an accomplished work.

Blueneck Online
  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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Blueneck - King Nine