This just has to be heard, it is immense and guaranteed to leave you struck dumb in awe and disbelief: that somehow perhaps you have survived thus far through life’s daily grind without having this at your shoulder to offer solace and escape. Seriously I’ve played this twice, cried six times and quite frankly – hate to get maudlin on you – but elevated it to the top of the records at my funeral playlist – it could well be the last record – that good – I’ll go as far as to say I’ve not been this blown away by a track since hearing Peel playing Bang Bang Machine’s ‘Geek Love’ – the extended mix – for the first time. The atmospherics, the resonance, that sense that you are in the company of something truly monumental, emotionally unravelling, statuesque and beyond mere pop / sound.
Conveying a multitude of moods and feelings that veer from loss – hope – and the nothingness of it all – this bleakly beautiful honey – incidentally titled ‘No Dreams’ – is as unreal as it is ethereal, a polar opposite of My Bloody Valentine, spectral, fragile and divinely minimalist in craft and technique and without doubt informed by the noise core purists emanating from New Zealand in the late 80s and with that possessed of a reverential gravitas that suggests a celestial visitation has passed your way. It’s by Noveller – which in essence is one Sarah Lipstate who I believe has just signed to Fire Records and is visiting Europe on tour, should you get the chance I suggest you drop everything and make the necessary pilgrimage to see her!
OCTOBER EUROPEAN TOUR
23 Oct 2014 AT Graz – Elevate Festival
24 Oct 2014 LV Durbe – Zemlika Festival
25 Oct 2014 UK London – Café Oto
26 Oct 2014 UK Bristol – Cafe Kino
28 Oct 2014 UK Manchester – Gullivers
29 Oct 2014 UK Leeds – Belgrave Music Hall
30 Oct 2014 UK Norwich – Epic Studios
31 Oct 2014 FR Paris – ESPACE B
01 Nov 2014 FR Nantes – SOY Festival
04 Nov 2014 BE Brussels – Spion
07 Nov 2014 NL Den Haag – REWIRE Festival
08 Nov 2014 DE Bremen – Spedition
12 Nov 2014 DE Hamburg – Westwerk w/ Lee Noble, Nika Son
13 Nov 2014 SE Malmö – Inkonst
14 Nov 2014 SE Göteborg – Koloni / Koloni
15 Nov 2014 SE Stockholm – Mother / Fylkingen
