Comment:
Amit Buium is a young and talented artist from Israel who has obviously been
loving the 80s for a while with regard to listening to her first proper outing.
Those influences come out either directly or circuitously depending on each
track. By using a plentiful of more or less hazy synthesiser-based hanky panky
and electronic drums and being sacrificed the guitar-based sounds she has produced
this 6-notch issue for our pleasure. However, her influences seem to come from
the epoch while many (post-) punk musicians changed their sound more toward
synthesizer-driven and dance-appealed sound (New Order, Killing Joke, The Cure,
A Certain Ratio etc). For instance, at Cheated the listener could
perceive her voice to unveil obvious, minor chord similarities and singing
manner with Tanita Tikaram while her voice is backed up by intensely whirling
synthesizer chords, and New Age-y motives. The young musician surprises me at Landscapes,
which conjures up blistery longing on the base of playing in the vein of
jazzy/fusion guitar patterns which will turn into a melodic post-rock
weave. On the other side, the title
track, Rain, and Homesickness (the favourite of mine!) are
expertly soaked in reveries and being relentless in progressing to majestic,
almost hymn-alike chords. The album is retrospective in a good sense because of
creating something idiosyncratic on the base of the older music. At the moment
the debut album by Amit Buium is a definitive candidate to be appeared in the
list of the best issues in 2016.
