Altar Eagle – Mechanical Gardens
[Type, 2010]
Altar Eagle are a couple: Brad Rose (a.k.a. The North Sea) and his wife, Eden Hemming. They play a beatifully boring shoegaze, which is becoming more and more adequate as summer turns into rainy and cooler fall. This is the music of static electricity, with the ability to get inside of you and tune your faders and knobs to its frequency.
Beneath the melody line there are rigid, dry, scratching metallic sounds that go in parallel with a slow change of gluey notes and vocals soldered into the music. A usual shoegaze dreaminess, simply put. Somewhat like Beach House (think male+female), but with the vocals more inside the music.
What’s interesting about Mechanical Gardens is that in the middle of the album, on Monsters, a shift of mood happens. From a blanket-y, soft ambience – a dive into an almost jumpy electronic feel, more pop-like than in the beginning.
The album is perfect for those moments when you need something to bring you noise on the background – quite loud, for you to lose sense of time and stay in the space created by music, and focus on the task at hand. I usually apply shoegaze to focused work. To block the ambience sounds. Altar Eagle provides exactly for this beautiful even background. Without details that would draw too much attention to them, and at the same time such music that would keep you at the same wave length.
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