Comment:
the duo of Emil Holmström
and Peter Wikström
aka Ecovillage's music has been changed a bit in comparison to one of
their first outings since the beginning of the 10s. While the
complicated formula they did have established then can be
superimposed upon the recent sound as well. The influences obviously
come from intellectual rock and experimental music scenes like
krautrock, progressive rock, and Kosmische Musik. For instance, some
rarefied extractions you can map out on this 5-notch issue used to
hark back to Manuel Göttsching's
experiments on atmospheric guitars and spaced-out electronic
treatments in the beginning of the 70s. Howerer, at times one must go
further back in time by getting to the exuberant flickers of tiki and
exotica music. Thirdly, though, it is an example of contemporary
indie music being a part of chillwave, glo-fi and hypnagogic pop
movement. Undoubtedly, you are not going to have objections by
drawing parallels upon the likes of The Real Estate, Ducktails, x. y.
r., Tont, and Monster Rally. From the aforementioned line apart an
album called With Fragile Wings We Reach
The Sun (2013, Parallax Sounds) was
more a poppy case of shoegaze, baggy and dream pop amalgamation. More
profoundly, in comparison to one of their first issues being released
on EverythingIsChemical, and Beko DSL, those heavenly sonorous bows
of droning strings are traded for blissful laid-back flute whiffs and
sultry field recordings, and trance-y tanpura meanders chiming as if
the parable of having been living with the world at peace for a
while. Musically it used to be more than ever before in concordance
with the term "ecovillage" due to sustainable and
contemplative intentions and
accomplishments. I also added the term
"post-rock" among the tags though it is similarly as
conditional as it is related to late period Talk Talk' music (in the
sense the phase of the style is left behind or followed it just with the purpose to get rid of it). The masterpiece is a bit in the
discography of Constellation Tatsu. For me, alongside with Joxfield
ProjeX, another duo, the most blistering Swedish act now.
