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The St.Just Vigilantes : Pastor Of Oaks, shepperd of Stones (UK,2008)***
/ Static Caravan
This new band featuring Little Sparta's Alan Boyd and Jonathan Twilight Orr made a potentially interesting front cover (printed much too dark in the final print), and received an interesting label’s introduction for that they should have provoked an almost mystic theatrical mood, in reality, like the cover, the music keeps itself in lower energies, sometimes sad, more often dark and turning to loops, not warming up enough the whispery dreamy rituals much, with vocals, guitars, glockenspiel and droning harmoniums, fading out quickly when becoming hypnotic and trippy. There is indeed a world provoked but it does not seem to come to real life yet. The musical concept is snoring and the visions not real yet. A few poppier songs does not save you from falling into the drug effect of a dominating smoke.
CD edition of 1000 copies in card gatefold.
