Breaks and Nesting!
An interesting piece by Thomas Schubert in the Zoolamar webrebelzine ('Google translated' from the original German):


The native of Los Angeles band Bodies of Water actually stood since the end of 2008 to review my list since I have seen live as a guest act at the Calexico concert in Cologne E-Werk and the first one did. But in Vorweihnachtsgetümmel the CD will probably note is slipped under the numerous shopping list. But now it has finally come, as the album "A certain feeling" just back dauerrotiert on my CD player and with good reason.

Original song structures, Breaks and nesting, a lot of dynamism and sense of melody, while a thick sound are the hallmarks of Bodies of Water. The Californians have mixed a very own indie brew that is both fascinatingly and casual, reminiscent of the grunge-shares as well as underground sounds a la Velvet Underground, the shrill-oblique harmonies of early Roxy Music or even the cool detachment of emotional ICU Joy Division.

A orgelorgienartige Ray Manzarek will seed here also claimed - in the Bodies of Water Sound The Doors sometimes an actually come to mind. Sediments of New Wave and glam rock have left their traces in the songs, which while resulting in a complex and coherent impression. Finally, a breath of Young Marble Giants in there in this exciting mix of classic-sounding ingredients, and avant-garde.

It all sounds rather confusing and perhaps ill-conceived, but every second highly interesting, very ambitious, and above all, alive and kicking, so this album multiple times and its great bye freshness preserved and again allow new discoveries, of which there are a lot. From the enormous pressure and drive, drives the songs, to the playful and spinnerten Spirenzchen, which swarm and put up with things in a harmonious whole.

Some of these songs just something bulky-looking at developing several listening downright catchy nature of work without ever being superficial. On the contrary - is precisely because doing so much under the surface to connect the different levels over time more and more into a single unit, which remains firmly in mind.

Before the diversity of the vocabulary used and the identified sources and influences, yet too much?? produce the kind reader, and raise doubts whether such an illustrious mix it can sound really as original as it indicates the reviewer recommends the Ohrtrommler intensive preview at www.myspace.com / bodiesofwater and more info on the band's website www . bodiesofwater.net

Unconditional Anspieltipps: "Gold Peach tan and gray" and "Under the pines," Then you have "a feeling of safety" for magnificence of Bodies of Water.

Also: An interview here on the des oreilles dans babylone site.




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