Vaadat Charigim: Sinking As a Stone (Burger) Review | Under the Radar Magazine Under the Radar | Music Blog for the Indie Music Magazine
Friday, April 26th, 2024  
Subscribe

Issue #53 - April/May 2015 - Tame ImpalaVaadat Charigim

Sinking As a Stone

Burger

May 20, 2015 Issue #53 - April/May 2015 - Tame Impala By Austin Trunick Bookmark and Share


This Israeli three-piece impressed psych fans at last year’s SXSW, conjuring humongous, swirling clouds of melodic noise which seemed much too large to have come from such a compact lineup. Their multi-layered, heavily-textured guitar effects won them positive comparisons to Ride and Slowdive as well as contemporaries Wild Nothing; the band’s pop sensibilities are a strong suit. Their first record, The World is Well Lost, was underheard when it was reissued stateside (on cassette) by Burger Records; this one should hopefully get more attention, but it just isn’t as distinctive. Sinking As a Stone’s problem is that it’s too fleeting—the music floats past and leaves listeners little to latch on to. The lack of discernible lyrics—the songs are sung in Hebrew—probably doesn’t help the matter for English listeners, but that doesn’t atone for a scarcity of striking melodies. It all makes for some pretty background music. (www.soundcloud.com/vaadat-charigim)

Author rating: 5.5/10

Rate this album
Average reader rating: 9/10



Comments

Submit your comment

Name Required

Email Required, will not be published

URL

Remember my personal information
Notify me of follow-up comments?

Please enter the word you see in the image below:

Parties
May 21st 2015
5:20am

not bad at all, remember me another bands, i prefer the other singles past 1 year ago.

Current Issue

Issue #72

Apr 19, 2024 Issue #72 - The ‘90s Issue with The Cardigans and Thurston Moore

Most Recent