The Gentleman Losers
Dustland
If the band's debut was like a sneak-peak into their universe,
"Dustland" breathes the air of more than confident self-assurance. More
refined and more detailed, the new album sounds like a ballroom
orchestra recorded inside a snow globe. Big songs compressed through
the bottleneck of lo-fi genius. Meanwhile, the ballerina still dances.
A seamless, deep journey into an unknown yet familiar world, packed
with references still to become reality.
From the opening track "Honey Bunch", which dances around a little
guitar motif, backed up by horizon full of slide-airyness, to the
tape-hiss driven "Silver Water Ripples". From "Lullaby Of Dustland",
which is exactly that, to the dark drones of "Wind In Black Trees", or
the 60s movie soundtrack-flavored harpsichord of "Farandole", with
"Dustland" The Gentleman Losers deliver a fascinating, hypnotic second
album.
"The word cinematic is often used to describe our music. I suppose it's
fitting, but it's a film genre that doesn't quite exist. It should,
though!", muses Ville when asked about their sound. "It's about
memories of things to come - faded souvenirs from a twilight place that
no one has been to", adds Samu. "That place is called Dustland."
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