Dying In Time
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| Sep 2009
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Barbra Anne
Reviewed 2010-01-25
Reviewed 2010-01-25
port-royal
dying in time
Wafty Italian space disco / drone pop with a few post rock moments. Potentially the product of an imaginary weekend where MBV and Massive Attack got together with Enya and DJ Tiesto and made a record for gay european stoners. Feels a little VH1 to me, but I’ll give it a pass because they manage to find some uniquely warm sounds that still make sense inside the few potentially cheesy house beats. 9,10 & 11 make for a beautiful suite.
Try: 1, 8, 11
1. (8:28) angelic blissies surround and warm you while the feminine coos rock you to sleep. Drums come in and out and in and out and switch and shutter their way into happiness.
2. (7:02) shimmering pillow-sufficated house thump that blooms up into heaven.
3. (3:58) long ambient intro that gets kicked over and pickpocketed by a thundering bully drumline. Quiet ambient outro.
4. (9:37) slow, explorative post-rockish excursion. Buyoued by a buff low end.
5. (4:41) heavy, heavy, heavy hum/piano gives way to some lighter, friendlier space disco.
6. (8:34) about 4 minutes of a steamy ambient sunrise suddenly toppled by an incoming house beat.
7. (5:04) quiet intro. Emotive space disco.
8. (8:49) port royal simultaneously reach their space-disco-y-est and drone-pop-y-est. With about 3 minutes to go things quiet down before they blow up into something a bit more difficult, then they quiet down again.
9. (5:21) slower catch-your-breath affair. Towards the end finds a really beautiful tone. Bleeds into track 10…
10. (5:24) a few notes start to find their way into the mix. Distortion builds, disco beat comes in.
11. (6:06) soft post-rockish guitar takes the foreground as an orchestra of synths takes us into flight.
dying in time
Wafty Italian space disco / drone pop with a few post rock moments. Potentially the product of an imaginary weekend where MBV and Massive Attack got together with Enya and DJ Tiesto and made a record for gay european stoners. Feels a little VH1 to me, but I’ll give it a pass because they manage to find some uniquely warm sounds that still make sense inside the few potentially cheesy house beats. 9,10 & 11 make for a beautiful suite.
Try: 1, 8, 11
1. (8:28) angelic blissies surround and warm you while the feminine coos rock you to sleep. Drums come in and out and in and out and switch and shutter their way into happiness.
2. (7:02) shimmering pillow-sufficated house thump that blooms up into heaven.
3. (3:58) long ambient intro that gets kicked over and pickpocketed by a thundering bully drumline. Quiet ambient outro.
4. (9:37) slow, explorative post-rockish excursion. Buyoued by a buff low end.
5. (4:41) heavy, heavy, heavy hum/piano gives way to some lighter, friendlier space disco.
6. (8:34) about 4 minutes of a steamy ambient sunrise suddenly toppled by an incoming house beat.
7. (5:04) quiet intro. Emotive space disco.
8. (8:49) port royal simultaneously reach their space-disco-y-est and drone-pop-y-est. With about 3 minutes to go things quiet down before they blow up into something a bit more difficult, then they quiet down again.
9. (5:21) slower catch-your-breath affair. Towards the end finds a really beautiful tone. Bleeds into track 10…
10. (5:24) a few notes start to find their way into the mix. Distortion builds, disco beat comes in.
11. (6:06) soft post-rockish guitar takes the foreground as an orchestra of synths takes us into flight.
Recent airplay
Hva (Failed Revolutions)
brain drip — Apr 27, 2011
Hva (Failed Revolutions)
orangeasm — Apr 15, 2010
Hva (Failed Revolutions)
Beatnik Bourgeoisie — Apr 07, 2010
The Photoshopped Prince
Synthetics — Mar 30, 2010
Hermitage Pt. 3
Quasi Music Therapy no PACC tonight — Mar 29, 2010
I Used To Be Sad
The DJ Never Has It — Mar 21, 2010
Charting
2010-02-14 — 2010-04-18
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Apr 18 | 1 |
| Apr 11 | 1 |
| Apr 4 | 2 |
| Mar 28 | 1 |
| Mar 14 | 1 |
| Mar 7 | 2 |
| Feb 28 | 1 |
| Feb 21 | 2 |
Track listing
| 1. | Hva (Failed Revolutions) | ||
| 2. | Nights In Kiev | ||
| 3. | Anna Ustinova | ||
| 4. | Exhausted Muse/Europe | ||
| 5. | I Used To Be Sad | ||
| 6. | Susy: Blue East Fading | ||
| 7. | The Photoshopped Prince | ||
| 8. | Balding Generation (Losing Hair As We Lose Hope) | ||
| 9. | Hermitage Pt. 1 | ||
| 10. | Hermitage Pt. 2 | ||
| 11. | Hermitage Pt. 3 |