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Last Days: Sounds
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"Last Days Of April come our way via Sweden, and Angel Youth is some of the sweetest melodic rock I've heard in a long time. You could easily call Last Days Of April orchestral rock, with their complex arrangements they pull off - not necessarily traditional either. They use a thick studio production on their mix that allows them to layer both vocals and instruments, providing a very lush sound. Most of the tracks have a dark, sad feeling throughout them, but they always manage to put in a ray of hope to avoid depression. Premium songwriting and very clever production thanks to Pelle Gunnerfeldt. It's amazing the way they have that sonic wall of sound and yet there are always melodies soaring in and out.
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Last Days is Graham Richardson. After successfully finishing a degree in graphic design in 1997 Richardson went on to work in the mental health field. While this work proved rewarding all creativity had been stifled. The desire to make music had always been there and it wasn't until 2000 after acquiring a pc, acoustic guitar and microphone Last Days began to take shape. After living on the south coast of England for 4 years Graham decided to move north to Edinburgh, Scotland. This colder, darker climate proved to be influential in developing the Last Days sound which can be the aural equivalent to those last days of certain situations which often yield some very strong and confusing emotions.
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"Last Days Of May makes hypnotic rock-based soundscapes that are perfect for listening to sprawled out on the floor of some pitch-black room with the stereo at top volume. Radiant Black Mind was recorded live and has a loose, searching, improvised feel. The music never stagnates, and some moments (as with the gnawing, abrasive guitar scowl of "Apollo Cabinfire") are positively startling. A beautiful creepiness runs throughout the recording, scraping at the back of your eardrums like some rusty device lost in an abandoned hallway, trying every door slowly and deliberately in its search to find a way out. "The West" is perhaps the defining track on this collection. This piece resembles some ungodly collaboration between space-noise rockers Hovercraft and Germany's guitar beast Caspar Brotzmann.
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