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Movietone (1995)

Newly winter, January 1, 1995, Movietone ushered in the new year with their self-titled debut album. Poetic spoken word over anxious dissonance, the melancholic record consists solely of female vocalists whose lyrical charm repeatedly becomes obscured by hazy noise. The atmospheric instrumental seems to eclipse the fainthearted, melancholic vocals — not uncharacteristic of England’s 90s post-rock. Still, Bristol-based artists Kate Wright and Rachel Brook founded the band in 1994 with an experimental, eclectic rendition of previously rising popularity shoe gaze and neo-psychedelia genres. Opening with an existential lament of derealization and musical devotion, the record’s eleven-track duration descends into a cold, distinctive sound highlighted by shattering glass, slowcore pensiveness & regret.

6/11/2024・Landen Fulton

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