Comment: I used to adore and hate the list of the best
albums at the end of year. I hate it because many excellent releases issued in
a certain year I had had no time to listen to them and add to the list. One of
such albums is Red Cosmos` sophomore issue Dreaming In Unison. Indeed,
three long years had passed since the Englishman Kim Tortoise released his
debut There And Back on Clinical Archives in 2012. The issue starts off
with high-spirited Kindred, which is an excellent indie/chillwave pop
with ennobling harmonics, blissful noisy sonic shards and post-punk gears
chiming like…Red Cosmos meets The Cure. The album will be finished off by Shout
Into The Sky, which is similarly highly epic and beautiful. Both of them
are real pop gems to be measured up to pop charts. That`s the fact. I am really
fascinated by them being not tired after listening to them many times in a row.
In the meantime, Kim Tortoise’s account could be considered more sophisticated
thereby reminding of his compatriots Nick Currie aka Momus and Alan Driscoll
aka The Womb`s doings. More profoundly, he likes to play with the listener`s
attitude and aesthetical perceptions in elegant way. Funk Night sounds
like being a tribute to Spacemen 3, and Spiritualized mingling together poppy
and experimental sides of alternative pop music. Frequently his aesthetic is
saturated with humour and sadness, a times being buffoonish, thereof catching
hold of the listener even with greater strength. At We Should Have Kissed
Kim Tortoise shows again his immense love towards post-punk rhythmic lines. Carnal Vindicator is an amusing blend of music hall, comedy and electro-rockabilly. In fact, what the fuck is that? Taken together, get this album of 12 different chapters full of uncanny artsy
phenomena while being up to.
