When I first started writing for Listen Before You Buy, I had no idea the range of music that would be found in the submissions. For instance, I never for a second thought that I’d be listening to the 2010 Slovakian Album of the Year, which sounds weirdly like Tears for Fears, and…loving it.
These three guys claim they come from a generation “whose creative ability would dissolve the uniformed world that their parents called home” and that the themes that occur throughout their music is “hopefully evidence of the shitfree minds of the trio”.
So basically, they are nuts.
However, the music they make is wildly inventive and is the kind of music that is really only made by people who are as nuts as they are. The songs are extremely textured, complex, melodic, epic, and at times, heartbreakingly beautiful. Perhaps because they come from a country with a completely different history of music than that of the flurry of bands from the US and Britain that arrive every week, they take textures and ideas that haven’t been fashionable since about 1975 and make them somehow irresistible.
My earlier comparison with Tears for Fears still feels apt, as the first two songs on their mini-album, “From The Dust” go from a piano and strings opener to harmonised Brian May guitars and wildly out of date synth sounds to an almost Phoenix-style pop song. They just won’t stop twisting and turning their way through songs, and that keeps up throughout the whole record. Imagine Twin Shadow playing “Songs From The Big Chair”.
So if you fancy something a little different in your ears today, you could do a lot worse than these Slovakian screwballs. You can hear the album on Soundcloud below.
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