- Art pop
- Post-pop
- Baroque pop
- Avant-pop
- Alternative pop
- Chamber pop
Comment: it happened some months ago when I discovered
such label as Lebanon-based Hisstology and Cosmic Analogue Ensembele as a
pre-eminent combo in the roster. Indeed, both of them are sources worth to be
discovered. Souffle Continu is a fairly
marvellous flicker of consisting of 13 notches. Stylistically it could be
considered “art pop”, “chamber pop”, “baroque pop”, however, these styles could
say much less if one lacks experience of having listened to the issue. Furthermore,I feel myself a little bit guilty by trying to tag such beauty. Cosmic
Analogue Ensemble does not use synths here to extract predictable spacey sounds
to hover over landscapes and penetrate through atmospheric spheres. You could
hear sounds being similar because of coming out of the streets of Paris and
searching for magnificent moments by tapping the keys of harmonium thereby
reminding of Penguin Café Orchestra, for instance (Suite 3). The artist exploits orchestrations with very sublime turns
and wide cinematic progressions which chime otherworldly in a way one could get
stunned for sure. I was listening to it while it was snowing heavily. I felt myself
to be sad and in pensive mood. Later on, while there was darkened outside the
mood still continued to last. Although the artist exploits orchestrated sounds
over there which are just bare instruments to bring forth something ulterior
which might be unseen at first sight. Indeed, it is a sort of space pop due to
the overwhelming beauty and bewildering, even holy aesthetical touch. It was
one of the best albums in 2015. Thank you, Charif Megarbane,