{"id":20524,"date":"2020-05-08T12:46:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T10:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/?p=20524"},"modified":"2024-05-29T13:43:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T11:43:59","slug":"chemical-waves-even-when-we-fall-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/en\/chemical-waves-even-when-we-fall-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemical Waves – Even When We Fall Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are bands that record four albums in 30 years and other artists that have an incredible facility to release new full albums in no time. It seems to be the case of Chemical Waves<\/strong>, Marco Cattani\u2019s project (also member of Halo Effect<\/strong>) as now that we are finally finishing our review of his last album, we have learned that he has already a new record planned for June. Chemical Waves\u2019 <\/strong>first album was\u00a0The<\/em> Garden of Forking Paths<\/em> (title of a tale by Argentinian writer Borges) published in 2012, that was followed by a few singles until the project had a halt. Anyway Marco Cattani did not stop doing music as he used the moniker The Mark <\/strong>to release some albums in 2018.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For this new work, published by Unknown Pleasures Records, Marco has collaborated with different guest singers, one for each song (except two short instrumentals) adapting the track to the artists\u2019 styles and creating an album really varied that includes\u00a0darkwave, ethereal and even some minimal synth song. The cover is an homage to the late Vaughan Oliver, creator of the precious covers of the 4AD label that were the most perfect door to the beauty included in those records.<\/span><\/p>\n

Blindfolded, we enter Even When We Fall Apart, <\/em>and the fear of falling (and of falling apart) makes us breathe heavily. Our companion in \u201cDenied\u201d is Bedless Bones<\/strong> from Letonia, who welcomes us with a really catchy darkwave track. A drum reminiscent of Joy Division<\/strong> introduces \u201cThe Only Way,\u201d where French Closed Mouth<\/strong> immerses us in a dark and dangerous environment. When we arrive at \u201cThe Sphinx,\u201d we come across Hiv+<\/strong>, who is waiting for us with some Oscar Wilde\u2019s poems, to take us in a trip to the eighties where we can fall in love for the first time with Goth music again. German cold wave duo Virgin Tears<\/strong> takes us too to another world in \u201cThe Graves of Our past\u201d but this time, the trip is only spiritual: for a moment we believe that we have reached some inner peace. We are in such a peaceful state after the previous track that we fall sleep during a short interlude. Jason Sloan, as the personification of L\u2019Avenir<\/strong> waits for us in \u201cHymn,\u201d and proves that it\u2019s possible to create a minimal hymn without losing the emotion. From Colombia, Antiflvx<\/strong> guides us through the frozen paths of \u201cVoid and Light.\u201d Like the night follows the day, we arrive at \u201cThe Sparkles in your eyes\u201d with Egoprisme<\/strong> and the light and the urge to dance take complete control of us. RjVj<\/strong> sings in \u201cDesire\u2019s Web,\u201d and when me manage to realize, we are tangled and immobilised in the web that names the song, but it\u2019s also possible that the album already captured us a few songs ago.<\/span><\/p>\n