20 Oct 2011 — Tonje Thilesen
With his brand new collaboration track with folk musician Owensie (on vocals), the Dublin based magician Darragh Nolan aka Sacred Animals never ceases to amaze us. Hidden behind a blurry wall of haunting melodies, Michael Owens vocals vocals bathe in a darker and more mysterious sound than I recall from Darragh's earlier works, particularly when compared to his far more poppy Welcome Home EP. In fact, "Cat and Mouse" might be a little in the direction of Darragh's upcoming debut album (which he is in the process of recording); a sound he unveils will be more spacier and organic, as well as "sparse in places but with rushes of harmony", as he wrote to me on facebook chat.
The video for the track was recorded and edited within a few days by Feel Good Lost (Brendan Canty) whom, after listening to the track, literally ran outside with his cam recorder in the night to catch that particular eery atmosphere he was looking for.
While waiting for the final Sacred Animals full-lenght to drop (it might take a while, Darragh emphasizes), he apparently have a few collaborations going on with rising dream pop craftsman Sun Glitters, as well as LA native House of Wolves. Stay tuned.
Sacred Animals vs. Owensie - Cat and Mouse
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With his brand new collaboration track with folk musician Owensie (on vocals), the Dublin based magician Darragh Nolan aka Sacred Animals never ceases to amaze us. Hidden behind a blurry wall of haunting melodies, Michael Owens vocals vocals bathe in a darker and more mysterious sound than I recall from Darragh's earlier works, particularly when compared to his far more poppy Welcome Home EP. In fact, "Cat and Mouse" might be a little in the direction of Darragh's upcoming debut album (which he is in the process of recording); a sound he unveils will be more spacier and organic, as well as "sparse in places but with rushes of harmony", as he wrote to me on facebook chat.
The video for the track was recorded and edited within a few days by Feel Good Lost (Brendan Canty) whom, after listening to the track, literally ran outside with his cam recorder in the night to catch that particular eery atmosphere he was looking for.
While waiting for the final Sacred Animals full-lenght to drop (it might take a while, Darragh emphasizes), he apparently have a few collaborations going on with rising dream pop craftsman Sun Glitters, as well as LA native House of Wolves. Stay tuned.
Sacred Animals vs. Owensie - Cat and Mouse
When all is said and done, where do cyborgs go? "Thanks, MAINFRAME", the last track from the last-ever release by our beloved Brooklyn-based extraterrestrial unit Zonotope™, ends with an exhausted, maybe relieved, robotic sigh, to leave no doubt that this wonderfully weird synth-admiring alien is gone for good. It's even worse than that: "Zonotope™", the project's website informs us bluntly, "is dead from parasites". Our Earth, I assume, was not made for him/her/it. So let's all mourn quietly and respectfully, and this one last time let's get lost in the soothing vibes of the interstellar Ode to Joy by our friendly, albeit deceased, visitor.
Human Unity is out now via Synth Series.
Zonotope™ - Thanks, Mainframe
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