The French post-rock band Silent Whale Becomes A� Dream signed with Elusive Sound this year, and will release their 4-track LP Requiem via the label on November 18th–with a vinyl release scheduled for 2018. Describing their music, the band offers these words:
�This project is an ode to slowness and to the art of feeling the world, a tribute to rare things, to things that need time to be.”
As the album’s title would suggest, this new work approaches the subject of death with a solemn grandeur and a music that soars with beauty and mystery. The opening track “Dies Ir�, Dies Illa” translates loosely from the Latin as, “That day, is a day of wrath.” Somber strings ache with the full import of the proceedings here. Heavy with sorrow and slow as a funeral procession, their mournful tones grieve the passing with earthy resonance. Eventually reaching that place of final resting, the strings simmer off into a foggy mist, and as the body is lowered into the ground, deeply resonating drums mark the event with gothic ambiance. “Dies Ir�, Dies Illa” is the full ride! Clocking in at over 17-minutes, it’s an epic track that chronicles the sorrow of loss with the kind of passionate intensity rarely seen in post-modern music today.
