![]() ![]() “Psychedelic chaos” might very well reflect Kairon IRSE!’s methods, but the end product on Polysomn sounds more like interstellar harmony. Concise yet overstuffed with acid-laced ear candy, “White Flies” is the album’s most direct application of dopamine to the pleasure centers, a relatively straightforward pop gem that still feels like passing through a portal into another dimension. When Kairon IRSE! dial down the din, they remain delightfully weird and otherworldly, as on the standout “Mir Inoi,” a soft twinkling dirge reminiscent of UK psych-pop outfit Broadcast, with no discernible guitars to be found-just minimal loops of eerie synths. The band puts hooks front and center on the soaring “Retrograde,” even when backed by what sounds like dozens of guitar tracks. “Psionic Static” zeroes in on the intersection of lo-fi and sci-fi, with a miasmal intro of space-age synths and crackly beats gradually intensifying and opening up the song up into an imposing, wondrous anthem. ![]() Polysomn still carries echoes of Kairon IRSE!’s rhythmic past, indebted equally to Pink Floyd’s billowing prog and Can’s motorik moonshake this time around, though, melodies and hooks are strategically placed among a labyrinth of sonic bells and whistles. Their third album Polysomn, tempers the largesse of their first two efforts (2014’s Ujubasajuba and 2017’s Ruination) with approachable art pop whimsy, producing heady, heavy results. The rest is filler, pop ballads camouflaged like prog-rock ( Welcome Blue Valkyrie) and amateurish jamming.Pre-order buy pre-order buy you own this wishlist in wishlist go to album go to track go to album go to trackįew bands overpower the senses quite like Kairon IRSE! The Finnish group, who describe their music as “psychedelic chaos,” practice a distinctive form of kaleidoscopic psych-rock maximalism: a sprawling yet intricate blend of krautrock, stoner rock, and prog, festooned with cosmic jazz saxophone and interdimensional synthesizer. The album has one good song, that is one of the best of their career,Īltair Descends, evoking the dreamy Pink Floyd of the early days. 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. Polysomn (2020) embraces a more electronic and sleeker sound. Porphyrogennetos (11:41) is a prog-rock suite in search of a killer melody, but, not finding it, instead ends with screaming guitars and pounding drums that any child could do. (the instrumental coda of this piece is perhaps the highlight of the album). That refrain that surfaces four minutes into it is a trivial folk-rock tune Sinister Waters I (12:19) begins with a litany that sounds likeĪnd so does the synth-driven opening theme of The pop temptation is obvious on Ruination (2017). Unfortunately, the album ends with the lame pop tune and the amateurish Visible in Tzar Morei (9:44), but the "loud" isĮlectric Prunes, and the tone is grandiose if not exuberant. The post-rock aesthetic of alternating loud and soft sections is still (somehow evoking the vision of a punk-ish version of Thundering guitar distortion and jazzy saxophone that goes insane That is not trivial, although not groundbreaking either,Īnd Rulons (8:26), possibly the highlight, is an explosive mix of Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic. Swarm (9:40) soars to a level of noise (mixed to a folkish undercurrent) Stream more from Kairon Irse and connect with fans to discover new. (drummer Johannes Kohal and bassist/vocalist Dmitry Melet),Īnd the poppy Amsterdam (7:17) is dangerously similar to laid-back middle-of-the-road prog-pop of the 1970s ( Toto, Boston and the likes), Listen to Amsterdam by Kairon Irse with YouTube, Spotify, Deezer, Vimeo & SoundCloud. Twin-guitar attack of Lasse Luhta and Niko Lehdontie, The Defect in that one is Bleach/ We're Hunting Wolverines (2011), The Defect in that one is Bleach/ We're Hunting Wolverines (2011), 5/10ĭebuted with the immature hybrid of post-rock and dream-pop of ![]() ![]() ( Copyright © 2020 Piero Scaruffi | Terms of Use) Kairon Irse: biography, discography, review, ratings ![]()
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