![]() ![]() The lighter shoegaze parts of 'Ujubasajuba' tend to have meandering guitars and synthesizer melodies panned in each ear, creating an ethereal atmosphere to counter the heavy and imposing post rock each song develops into 'Swarm' displays a grand crescendo through unrelenting snare drum rolls and crushing bass drums to create a maddening sense of anticipation. Kairon IRSE:Dmitry Melet - Voc, Bass, GtrJohannes Kohal - DrumsLasse Luhta - Gtr, BassNiko Lehdontie - Gtr, Synth, Voc, SamplerCREW:Directing & Editing: Ra. Throughout the album, each instrument provides a complimenting support for the rest of the band with an air of modesty, yet little variations as the songs progress make all parts fascinating to focus on individually.īut regardless of which genre camp the moment belongs to, the music is so lushly and consistently layered that not a second is spent out of interest for the listener. The guitars and bass play around similar motifs throughout each song yet differences and progressions in sound and tone creates a distinction for each instrument and shows just how meticulous their writing is it is perhaps shown best as the album draws to a close in the dynamic finale of 'Les, Moh y Gribi'. Melodic trade offs between guitars, synthesizers and vocals throughout strengthen the psychedelic aspects of the album to the point where they almost merge together and it is these nonthreatening vocals that range from whispers to soaring highs which hit the ear like a soothing nectar. We doubt that 2020 deserves a more blissful audio trip than Polysomn, going interstellar from the 11th of September 2020, via Svart Records.Many post rock bands suffer the blight of unmemorable melodies and sterility, but these qualities are anything but applicable to Kairon IRSE! - the album showcases incredibly engaging elements from both shoegaze and post rock, and the highly energetic execution of this fusion is what makes Ujubasajuba one of the strongest albums of the two genres from 2014. Every twist and turn of Polysomn’s acid-laced chaos is calculated in shimmering brilliance and maximised for the heavy ecstasy of sonic enlightenment. With the band fully in control of their distorted, euphoric bliss-machine of psychedelic post-rock, the result couldn’t be more refreshingly pop. Our goal was to make an intact and more compact album that all of its songs would support individually. We had a clear goal in our mind of what we should sound like, therefore we chose to produce the album by ourselves. A treasure-trove of glitching, elated sounds, that takes psychedelia into a new dimension, Polysomn brings to mind the melodic lightning of bands like Dungen, the chainsawing alternative guitar fuzz of My Bloody Valentine, the sparkle and dreamscape of Slowdive, and the technological envelope-pushing of Radiohead’s outsider works.īoldly self-produced, Niko from Kairon IRSE! explains their further evolution into inner-space song-craft on Polysomn: Following a European tour in 2017, Kairon IRSE! set sails for a performance at Roadburn Festival 2018, securing their name in the heart of the underground as rising stars of psychedelic post-rock.Īs the new decade unfolds, Kairon IRSE! prepare to pour down their multicoloured dreams thru your cerebral cortex on their highly anticipated new 3rd album,Polysomn. ![]() ![]() The Guardian found their music “as invigorating as a dip in a Finnish lake”, with “a sense of the visionary and sublime”, featuring Kairon IRSE! as New Band Of The Week. Psych rock hiss’n’fizz”, and Kairon IRSE!’s carefully crafted song structures came to the fore on Ruination, flexing a newly-forged pop sensibility for reshaping past influences into a futuristic tour de force of consciousness expansion. Prog Magazine referred to their “propulsive storm of It was their sophomore release, Ruination, in 2017 that established Kairon IRSE!’s place in the canon of Finnish genre-bending freakout fusion, bringing them widespread critical acclaim and a multitude of wild-eyed devotees to their astral-magic live-shows. The Wire describes their music as a “viperous cocktail of space rock, Greg Lake-era King Crimson and free jazz”, and ever since their debut album, Ujubasajuba set Bandcamp buzzing in 2014, their records have been hidden classics of modern psych-rock for those in the know. Formed in 2009 by four inner-space travellers from western Finland, Kairon IRSE! is a rare bird, near-impossible to classify.
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