Friday, June 24, 2011

Album Review - Majuscules Aquarium Age

This review is part of the "Over Flow" Review Series. For various reasons these past reviews were not published anywhere else. I am tagging them as "Overflow Reviews" and may add some extra information after if needed but I will keep the ratings and reviews just as I originally wrote them. Enjoy:
 Majuscules
Aquarium Age
**and1/2 out of *****

The title fits this EP like a diving helmet over a little gold figurine amongst the neon pebbles.  The guitars swim, floating in circles like fish around the Aquarium Age with both ease and grace.  This Brooklyn four piece isn't in a hurry with their warbling shoegazing style, the songs stick around (the 5 song collection touches 30 minutes) and repeat themselves causing some trance like rock to pour out.  "So Many" starts with a very hypnotic guitar line and whirls, never building to dramatic crescendo hinted at, yet a conveying a pleasant voyage.

While the guitars are confident in their ringing, the vocals sound like they are tip-toeing into the room trying not to offend.  There is a detached charm in the delivery, currently caught between rawness and singing/speaking but growing stronger here would add levels to the musical adventure.   "Veneers" has a early Modest Mouse vibe while flashes of later day Sonic Youth show up in the noisy, rising "State Birds".  "The Stone" ends Aquarium Age and is a 10 minute multifaceted journey into the realm of the unknown hinting at even grander things for this collection of 718 rockers whose first release pleases the ear.

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Happy to be able to review this EP from Majuscules, hope to bring more to you from them, but for now give the album a listen yourself.  That's right you can check it out right here!!  Give it a gander and get your "underwater spacegaze" on...stick around Rock The Body Electric for more from the band..

Here is a live fan video that gives you a sense of their sound as well, I think this tune is my favorite from the EP but they are all pretty good. 
"So Many"

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