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7.5
- Band:
Telepathy - Duration: 00:58:32
- Available from: 28/03/2025
- Label:
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Pelagic Records
Change of label for the British Telepathy, an English quartet that passes through the Svart Records, which published the previous “Burn Embrace”, to the Pelagic Records for the new “Transmissioni”: a perfect choice, given the proposed genre.
The band describes its sound as 'Cinematic Metal', an almost correct label for what is an instrumental mix of post-rock fiction, electronic rugs children of bands such as 65 Days of Static, and heaviness of the Pelican and Russian Circles school, all expertly arranged to create a flow that alternates different atmospheres and moods.
All the positive characteristics of the previous work return in this low hour of music, divided into seven chapters of variable duration, such as the almost ten minutes of “Augury”, capable of modulating the dynamics and the concept of variation on a single theme, codified by giants such as the Godspeed You Black Emperor even without ever reaching the same levels of intensity, with the instrumental precision of the Pelican.
Songs such as the heavy and square “Knife Edge Effect” or the post-rock drugged by continuous layer of “Home” Synths, for their part, they sound almost as interludes, given the duration that is only 'on' on the five minutes, and act as a connection for “Tears in the fiber” and “end transmission” real suite from fifteen minutes that represent the heart of this. “Transmissions”.
The first is a long ups and downs structured on moments that interact with each other, through an almost continuous solo guitar work, supported by vintage synthesizers rugs and a general mood that once again recalls the Canadian sacred monsters of Efrim Menuck and Michael Moya.
The production itself helps to extricate itself among the expressive hairpin bends of the Telepathy, thanks to a crystalline cleaning capable of maintaining that organic heat through the use of keyboards with analog taste.
“End Transmissions” presents itself as the most classically post-metal moment, tounteing territories very close to the Pelican, made of heavy rhythmic structures borrowed from a certain Sludge Metal, which then leave space in very precise points to more ethereal openings in which the electronics returns overwhelmingly creating, in the central part, truly fascinating contrasts with an extremely narrative impact.
Net of some slightly school and predictable passage and to a general trend to never want to dare or go beyond the land already traced by historical bands, thus remaining for now anchored to their own comfort zone, the Telepathy still maintain the quality level of “burn embrape” also with this new album and, even more important, they know how to excite: one thing that has become increasingly rare in a genre that is increasingly difficult to find the golden period.
Waiting for the return of the Pelican, let's enjoy this “transmission” in the meantime.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
