Suffer In April – Pomona – Corde Raide Productions –
Cassette – 2019.
Track list.
1. Eau
Trouble. (Water Trouble.)
2. Délivre
nous du mal (Deliver us from harm)
3. Jour
de pluie & Mesnie Corbac (Rainy Day and Mesnie Corbac)
4. La
Vierge se vide (The Virgin Empties Herself)
5. Dormir
avec la lame (Sleeping With The Blade)
6. Corps
Calciné (Calcined Body)
7. Secret
de femme (Woman’s Secret)
8. Respire.
(breathe)
When I reviewed Suffer in April’s ‘Femme Fatale’ recording earlier this month,
I got very excited, so as a result of that I had this release high up on my
list of things to review for the following month.
Pomona immediately differs from the other Suffer in April
releases; it has no traces of Harsh Noise or Power Electronics at all. All that’s
left is the beauty that shimmered in the backgrounds of the Femme Fatale album.
There are traces of ambient and Industrial there, but they are a faint echo of
the past releases. This trades the past for lengthy atmospheric instrumental passages
of sound. Keyboards and at times guitar make delicate melodies that hang within
the atmospheric sounds - floating, delicate and brittle. The work often plays
with silence and the builds wholes through the subtle interplay of slight sounds,
drones and harmonies.
Pomona goes elsewhere and is as a result of this it is strong
across the board, I put this forward as a work of immense beauty and one of my
favourite albums of this year.
Choppy Noodles 2019.