Volcano! - Beautiful Seizure [Leaf - 2006]Volcano!’s Beautiful Seizure, crash's in with a chaotic mix of indie guitars, sometimes manic, often laid back electronics . A vocalist who mixes conventional indie fare with angry highs and melodic sensibility, but also drops into manic speaking tongues mode.
The great thing about the album is, it’s always putting you off balance, you’ll be drifting in a haze of tinkling ambience then have out of control guitar riffs attacking you on all sides. A lot of the time what sounds complete off kilter chaos, will make sense the more you replay the album.
A few of my favourite tracks: La lluvai the singers singing his heart out in French , like some bizarre cabaret star of yesterday, but with the added kick of all over the places electronics and guitar suddenly making there presence know. Hello explosion opens with a stop start guitar structure that threatens to full apart, and then drifts in lush drones and wonderful atmospheric cello playing.
It will be interesting to hear what they do next; hopefully they won’t iron out the jagged edges, as that’s what keeps them apart from a lot of other bands
   Roger Batty
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