Dureforsog - Exploring Beauty
by Cila Warncke
published: 17 / 12 / 2001
Label:
Kool Arrow
Format: CD
intro
Imagine a sonic pile-up involving Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Joy Division (sans the ghost of Ian Curtis), Nine Inch Nails and darkest Depeche Mode and suddenly 'Exploring Beauty', the recent release
Imagine a sonic pile-up involving Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Joy Division (sans the ghost of Ian Curtis), Nine Inch Nails and darkest Depeche Mode and suddenly 'Exploring Beauty', the recent release from the moody young Danes of Düreforsög, will start to make sense – sort of. Taking an obvious delight in setting up dark, delicate soundscapes and then battering them down with howls, growls and waves of distortion, Düreforsög has made an album that is almost impossible to take seriously. Unless of course their target audience is the sort of willfully disaffected, Goth obsessed fifteen year-old for whom Placebo lyrics are too complex. With vocalist Boriz S snarling out lines like, “I’d kill for family dinner / and I’m desperate for a T-bone” the temptation to hit the stop button is overwhelming – except for the lingering fear that maybe he’s being ironic, and to turn it off would be an admission of woeful un-coolness. Unfortunately, 'Exploring Beauty' offers little more than the possible benefit of feeling clever for ‘getting’ it. There are snippets of enchanting sound, but they are too far between – and feel too accidental – to be compelling. For the most part the album reeks of over-exertion. It feels like the band doesn’t trust the music enough to be led by it; instead they throw layers of noise over anything that has any promise of being introspective or thought-provoking. Even the stand-out track “Living in Vain” which sounds like the bastard child of “Atmosphere” and “Master and Servant” (in a good way) collapses under the weight of Boriz S’s nonsensical navel gazing. All in all, this record is best left out for the kids… it’ll keep them from nicking and scratching up your Placebo CDs
Track Listing:-
1 Space Lonelines2 Beach
3 Ghost Chills
4 In My Shoe
5 Smile
6 Rubber Man
7 To Turn the World Inside Out
8 Prima Ballerina
9 Living in Vain
10 Honeybee
reviews |
Engine Machine (2002) |
Experimental, but slightly uninspired second album on the Kool Arrow label from Danish Quartet, Dureforsog |
most viewed articles
current edition
The Church - Interview with Steve KilbeySimon Heavisides - Destiny Stopped Screaming: The Life and Times of Adrian Borland
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities - #15- On Being Dignified and Old aka Ten Tips From Jah Wobble On How To Be Happy.
Secret Shine - Interview
Vetchinsky Settings - Interview
Repomen - Ten Songs That Made Me Love...
Jack Roscoe - Interview
Sami Sumner - Interview
Near Jazz Experience - Interview
Flaming Stars - Interview
most viewed reviews
current edition
Lewis 'Burner' Pugh - Bullets for BreadIan Hunter - Defiance Part 2: Fiction
Inutili - A Love Supreme
Kula Shaker - Natural Magick
Smalltown Tigers - Crush On You
Hillbilly Moon Explosion - Back in Time
David Cross Band - Ice Blue Silver Sky
My Life Story - Loving You is Killing Me
Beyonce - Cowboy Carter
Ty Segall - Three Bells
Pennyblackmusic Regular Contributors
Adrian Janes
Amanda J. Window
Andrew Twambley
Anthony Dhanendran
Benjamin Howarth
Cila Warncke
Daniel Cressey
Darren Aston
Dastardly
Dave Goodwin
Denzil Watson
Dominic B. Simpson
Eoghan Lyng
Fiona Hutchings
Harry Sherriff
Helen Tipping
Jamie Rowland
John Clarkson
Julie Cruickshank
Kimberly Bright
Lisa Torem
Maarten Schiethart