By: Peter Morsellio
Album
Type: Full
Length
Date
Released: 02/03/2020
Label: Lasairfhíona
Records
“Inviolate” CD//DD//LP track listing:
1. Countenance
2. Wreckage
3. Rules
4. All the Light
5. Kathleen
6. Black Cloaked
7. Ten Years
2. Wreckage
3. Rules
4. All the Light
5. Kathleen
6. Black Cloaked
7. Ten Years
The
Review:
The juxtaposition of beauty and
dissonance in music is an often attempted and often failed venture. It takes a
very special creative mind to find the connection points to make that puzzle
fit together. On “Inviolate”, the ghostly sophomore effort from Dystopian Future Movies,
this puzzle is completed.
“Inviolate”
drips with haunting beauty in its ethereal vocals and silky atmospheres. Melodies are sweet and floating, with
harmonies that seep deep into the listener's mind, wrapping them in a
comfortable embrace. On the other side
of that same coin there is a cold darkness, chilling to the bones. A blackened
void that swallow’s life. This is the marriage that Dystopian Future Movies consummates on this album.
A powerful emotional output balanced with the bleak grey of cacophonous
insanity.
Notes on this album range from
ethereal pop to a dreamily melodic post rock to the dark chaotic soundscapes of
black metal. These diverse offerings are
handled with the delicate care with which one would tend any garden. And like a
good garden, the individual parts are not on display as the stars of the show,
but rather the picture as a whole. There is no melody and cacophony, there is
no hard and soft. Neither beauty nor ugliness. Neither darkness nor light. Rather, Dystopian Future Movies creates something entirely
its own from all of these parts.
This may not be an album for everyone.
Some will claim it too soft; others might call it strange. But these terms are
walls of our own construction. We cannot let them contain us. “Inviolate”
is not dream pop, it is not post rock.
It's not sludge and it's not black metal. Rather, Dystopian Future Movies has crafted a work
of art that is wholly its own.
