The Voices - The Sound of Young America (My Kung Fu)
3/5
With guitar undertones that could almost belong to Kasabian and a definitive 80s influence at play, The Voices tend to start each of their tracks really rather well, as accomplished reverb ushers in what we hope will be some darkly ambient rock... but then, that's it.
What tends to follow those promising intros are half minute introductions stretched and warped. It's rhythmless, yet alarmingly soothing and euphoric, not what one would call catchy, but like a David Lynch film, it somehow places itself in some strange place inside your mind and remains there like an image in a confused dream.
Introduced by an organ fill, it's centrepiece 'Don't Let Go' and its little flourishes and dreamlike vocals repeated again and again which you'll find most memorable. The artists who make up The Voices seem to come alive and out of their noise based K-hole, with an experimental musical journey you'd be happy to hitch a lift on.
It does make one question what people consider 'music' - and how abstract one can be with that term. Made up of muffled, noisy sound instillations, at once dreamy and non descript, it's an incomplete but strangely memorable LP.
Stream tracks from 'The Sound of Young America' HERE.
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