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Peter Wright - Bright Failing Star [Release The Bats - 2009]

Peter Wright's discography is rather long, but it may give a hint to the fact that this artist has been around long enough to justify this number of released albums, working on his music for over 15 years and  just shooting them every week or so, regardless of the quality of the material. With this release he proves the opposite, it being a thoughtful, emotional and very rewarding album.

"Bright Failing Star" is an astral journey that begins with delicate and gentle liquid-like sounds that Wright brings forth through various means, with guitars, his weapon of choice, being the prime source. The momentum of this album, from the first second to the last one, is slow but highly persistent, and with this persistency Wright builds a tension that drives the sounds to dramatic explosions, building up momentarily from the slow, constant vibration, and then fades back to the onward flow of gentle drones. At these apexes, Wright's guitars resonate wildly and sharply, usually, like at the end of the second track, for instance, collapsing back into the slow paced requiem that is still flowing underneath few minutes later.

"Bright Failing Star" goes on and shift sounds on an almost subliminal level and blends various sources, like field recordings, with guitar drones that smell of distant worlds. At the end of the third part, as sound crystallizes into edgy forms of matter, sharp distortions are taking over the other, almost incorporeal parts of the album, so when Wright's bright star is failing, it does not go down without a big flare.

"Bright Failing Star" is a powerful voyage through infinite layers of vibrating tones. Wright skillfully twists and bends the ethereal sounds, sometimes through darkness, sometimes through light, until their inevitable decay.

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