published: 12 /
7 /
2014
Label:
Leaf Label
Format: CD
Intriguing but compelling third album from Stockholm-based experimental duo and mini-orchestra, Roll The Dice
Review
Two-man Stockholm-based orchestra Roll The Dice produce on 'Until Silence' a hefty and original set of avant-garde compositions which tiptoes and meanders through minimalism and modern downbeat composition as it builds up towards a gigantic storm. Whilst aiming for an anthemic after-effect, the album indulges itself throughout in a lovely whirlpool of sweet and awkward melodies. At first it is hard to detect the overall elegance; on first listening the harsh arrangement dominates. The second composition on the album, 'Assembly', serves as a wake-up call as well providing the invitation to merge march music with modern nihilism. During its ten minute running time, 'Assembly' appears un-shy of pathos too. Roll The Dice perform like a digital fullharmonic orchestra, and as such at varied stages stirred my thought that a computer might in the end be of more use than a conductor.
If not in hammering, then at least in striking fashion, 'Coup de Grace' brings together echoes of military uproar and quasi symphonic protest, before on 'Aridity' the tone lowers. The dry winds then become the soft breeze on which this album flies off, an eerie mind-set developing on 'Until Silence'. The bumps found amidst this mark the moments and movements when challenges lead to supreme contemplation. Roll The Dice's industrial baroque themes amount up to a wonderful collage of sounds.
'Wherever I Go, Darkness Follows' brand starts the LP's second side. The ripping electronica now begins to show logic, as the full effect remains of purely baffling proportions.
Roll The Dice design new paths and set progressive limits for their album until the album's penultimate track 'Haunted Piano', on which the storms die out in a beautiful heyride. 'Until Silence' is a monumental orchestral piece of freaktronica. Leaning towards and over the edge, 'In Deference', merely misspelling indifference, concludes an album of melodic misconceptions and muted mayhem. Intrigue par excellence!
Track Listing:-
1
Blood In Blood Out
2
Assembly
3
Time and Mercy
4
Coup de Grâce
5
Aridity
6
Wherever I Go, Darkness Follows
7
Perpetual Motion
8
Someone’s Land
9
Haunted Piano
10
In Deference
11
We Will Be One
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