Album Review of 'Piedmont' by Reklein

Album Review of ‘Piedmont’ by Reklein

May 31, 2011 0 Comments

Piedmont is a unique and transforming album that provoked something inside of me. The song titled Intro immediately pierces you with a sense of eeriness that is deep and profound and the second song titled Cambric really continues that sense and sets the mood for a good experience. The sounds being mixed are a little dark and give you a dense feeling when you first hear them. Their the type of songs that could make the score to an awesome suspenseful moment in life, or the overtones to an epic moment in a Michael Mann movie. Especially Cassidy, a song that carries you along a non-wavering path of lightness and sense of purpose. It reminded me very much of some scores that were done by Moby for various things. Those of us familiar with his works for movies and things know that sense I am referring too. That sense that makes you feel like life is deeper than the day to day drudge (see the score, by Moby, to the movie Heat at the end when Al Pacino has to shoot Robert DeNiro). That sense that music is meaningful and guides us through that drudge. Reklein did that for me. I don’t listen to IDM music as much these days as I have in the past but Reklein awakened an interest to seek out some more information into the local computer electronic scene. Reklein say they are a band that was formed to fuse two different styles of music and I can definitely see that in the eclectic mix of sounds that they produce. Piedmont intertwines very dense, industrial undercurrents glazed over with a more space rock theme. Sometimes the industrial part can get in the way of the sounds harmonizing but it is very short lived making the majority of Piedmont a really cool album that can be a great companion in seeking out some expansion of mind. I recommend the songs Cassidy, Sinke and Robb for the spacier sound that I prefer, and the songs Harland and Michnofor a little more industrial sound. All of them are equally wonderous though. Reklein also melds some more bubbly and perkier sounds as well. See the beginning of Larson and the song Cartwright. Larson does manage to take it back to the epic, score worthy material toward the middle of the song, making it one that is pretty encompassing of what Reklein is all about…bringing together two styles to make beautiful and thoughtful music.