Solstafir - Otta (Seasons of Mist)
As we near the top ten albums of 2014, we encounter the four cowboys from Iceland, delivering their fifth full length release with once more a slow-paced mixture of post-rock, neofolk with a pinch of progressive hidden underneath. The use of piano sounds, longing strings banjos
add a dream-like quality to the melancholic riffs.
This is a concept album, on the basis of an Icelandic system of time that starts and ends at midnight. The different tracks represent very well the eight segments of a day. The songs that portray nocturnal hours are epic, hypnotizing and lugubrious. The calm, lethargic and menacing opener “Lágnætti” has an almost nightmarish quality.
Here, on the basis of this weird concept, the band manages to deliver a diversified listening experience, much more accessible than it would appear at first glance.
96/100
For your viewing pleasure two incredible official videos, straight from this record
As we near the top ten albums of 2014, we encounter the four cowboys from Iceland, delivering their fifth full length release with once more a slow-paced mixture of post-rock, neofolk with a pinch of progressive hidden underneath. The use of piano sounds, longing strings banjos
add a dream-like quality to the melancholic riffs.This is a concept album, on the basis of an Icelandic system of time that starts and ends at midnight. The different tracks represent very well the eight segments of a day. The songs that portray nocturnal hours are epic, hypnotizing and lugubrious. The calm, lethargic and menacing opener “Lágnætti” has an almost nightmarish quality.
Here, on the basis of this weird concept, the band manages to deliver a diversified listening experience, much more accessible than it would appear at first glance.
96/100
For your viewing pleasure two incredible official videos, straight from this record
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