The opening 25 minutes of the record sees Kairon IRSE! swimming wilfully into mysterious, sinister waters. I made a list of the potential genres that this album could/doesn’t fit into, and I had psych, post-rock, math rock, folk and prog within the first 45 seconds of the album starting. It sees the band move definitively in the direction of classic Prog (yes, with a capital ‘P’- call me out, if you must), with track lengths on 3 of the 6 on show stretching toward 12-13 minute proportion, and the whole album dispensing almost entirely with the previous blitzkrieg of noise, and focusing instead on bringing a trippy, pastoral and more refined, spacious style.ĭespite the move to a less abrasive sound, the willingness to dive head first into the previously unheard is very much alive and well. Hailing from Seinäjoki, a small city in western Finland, this innovative, experimental four piece now present their third record Ruination. It was an enthralling, explosive ride through the largely unchartered territory of psychedelic post-rock, additionally incorporating elements of shoegaze, progressive rock and generally being smashed out of your skull on some rather fine acid. "Despite committing any number of crimes in the eyes of the grammar police, Kairon IRSE! certainly made more than just an exclamation mark with their second album Ujubasajuba in 2014. but a tremendously quality release this is. I'm not doing a very good job of describing it's quality. Rather complex in an old-style way (think Kultivator, Gentle Giant, Miriodor) and with nice, ethereal vocals, but also with a certain touch of modern guitar stoner / shoe-gaze-dom that makes this unmistakably sound like a record of today. Krazily named new progressive / psychedelic Finnish band who show a fairly masterful level of maturity and control on this, their third album.
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