![]() ![]() To make music this dense feel so spacious is no mean feat. It’s deceptively breezy music, but there are so many layers of sound at work, so many little details. Guitars and synths smear and blur into each other, surreal and oneiric but never anything less than euphoric. The airy timbres of the instrumentation leave you feeling weightless. It’s a record that you feel, if played at the correct volume, might somehow cause you to physically levitate. ![]() You’ll notice I used the words ‘blissful’ and ‘ecstatic’ back there these are the two most apt words that I can use to convey the feeling captured on Polysomn. Strangely though the song lengths are more concise, it’s perhaps not as instant as Ruination on first listen, coming across as a slightly more textural effort, but before you know it, you’re firmly sucked into its orbit. It’s safe to say that first taste wasn’t a fluke, and that Polysomn is another absolute beauty. First single An Bat None indicated they weren’t going to steer us wrong, leaning perhaps in a more succinct direction but not compromising the ecstatic nature of their previous work. Polysomn arrives with no small amount of anticipation to those already hitched firmly to the Kairon wagon. It’s been a long wait to see where they’d land after that sprawling musical journey. ![]() They took elements, you knew in your heart should fit together, even though no-one had really managed it, and finally made it work. A treasure-trove of glitching, elated sounds, that takes psychedelia into a new dimension, Polysomn brings to mind the melodic lightning of bands like Dungen, the chainsawing alternative guitar fuzz of My Bloody Valentine, the sparkle and dreamscape of Slowdive, and the technological envelope-pushing of Radiohead’s outsider works.We last heard from these Finns on 2017’s tower of strength Ruination, a minor masterpiece showcasing a seamless blend of prog, shoegaze and possibly the greatest bass sound ever committed to tape. Following a European tour in 2017, Kairon IRSE! set sails for a performance at Roadburn Festival 2018, securing their name in the heart of the underground as rising stars of psychedelic post-rock.Īs the new decade unfolds, Kairon IRSE! prepare to pour down their multicoloured dreams thru your cerebral cortex on their highly anticipated new 3rd album,Polysomn. The Guardian found their music “as invigorating as a dip in a Finnish lake”, with “a sense of the visionary and sublime”, featuring Kairon IRSE! as New Band Of The Week. ![]() Prog Magazine referred to their “propulsive storm of psych rock hiss’n’fizz”, and Kairon IRSE!’s carefully crafted song structures came to the fore on Ruination, flexing a newly-forged pop sensibility for reshaping past influences into a futuristic tour de force of consciousness expansion. It was their sophomore release, Ruination, in 2017 that established Kairon IRSE!’s place in the canon of Finnish genre-bending freakout fusion, bringing them widespread critical acclaim and a multitude of wild-eyed devotees to their astral-magic live-shows. The Wire describes their music as a “viperous cocktail of space rock, Greg Lake-era King Crimson and free jazz”, and ever since their debut album, Ujubasajuba set Bandcamp buzzing in 2014, their records have been hidden classics of modern psych-rock for those in the know. Its purpose is to be a wall of sonic bliss.”įormed in 2009 by four inner-space travellers from western Finland, Kairon IRSE! is a rare bird, near-impossible to classify. “an Bat None” introduces the heavier side of the album. Each song creates their own reality, filled with surreal visions and ethereal soundscapes. Beschreibung “With Polysomn we emphasize psychedelic chaos. ![]()
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