Astrodome- Seascapes (Copper Feast Records)

Astrodome, are a Porto based band, that have been pretty quiet the last years so this album snuck up on a lot of people. A happy surprise…   The band took a different approach to making this album though. The others were recorded live with some overdubs while this album was a real studio creation with a lot of time and effort put into different parts and sections and more sound manipulations.  The album features 8 tracks from 1mins to 10mins in length.  The short opener sort of sets the stage for the entire album with its dreamy sounds of the sea and simple guitar line before heading into Doldrums End.  This an uptempo track that slowly builds on very intermittent guitar lines and floating synths. Maelström is next and keeps the tempo pretty fast as this song is also very spaced out despite the tempo. Wow…. dreamy, trippy…. then there is the guitar solo, very melodic. Espic Hel Horizon is also very dreamy, post rock, spacey…… Nice build up. Erebus, seems to follow a lot of the same type of musical themes we have heard already on the record, continue this echoey dreamscape. Riptide starts with a high energy rocking start but then drifts back into space again. Lots of long delays give it a very spacey feel with the synths. Cool….

Aqueora is a short mainly synth piece but a bit of guitar at the end.. Sirens, is again very relaxed and spacey.  It is a cool album but seems like a lot of variations on the same dreamy themes over and over again, I could have used a bit more variety in the album. I think people will find it a bit too laid back from what they expected after the Astrodome II. Nice music… Great spaced out sound. 

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