Milosh - iii (K7)
4/5
By: Dickon Stone
Milosh is sorrowful. This is music to cry to. Powerful, moving, sometimes gentle, sometimes cruel music. To cry to.
In parts sounding along the lines of Brian Reitzell's plinky plonky compositions from the Lost In Translation soundtrack, and at other times touching on areas of trip hop (there are particular similarities with parts of edIT's 'Crying Over Pros For No Reason'), it's interesting how much cello is incorporated in to Milosh's music. But hey, he has been playing it since he was three. And is there a better instrument to cry to?
Ghostly vocals also rain through the undulating instrumentals; they build you up, break you down, they mostly make you want to cuddle someone or otherwise go on a coffee binge and stay awake 'til the sun comes up doing something arbitrary like writing fiction or reading the subtitles of a Japanese film you aren't really watching.
Employing clicks, clacks, pops, crackles and twinkles; Milosh paints a pretty picture. But again, if you have any reason to cry, do not listen to this music. Very reminiscent of The Flashbulb's Soundtrack To A Vacant Life and bits of Para One's soundtrack to La Naissance De Pieuvres, as well as snippets of Au Revoir Simone; iii fades from bright white into a colourful mesh of emotion; 'Hold My Breath' standing out as a more bass heavy, more classically electronica track, whilst still holding on to the chilled out beats and sustained droning whooshing/humming/roaring sounds that make Milosh so epic.
Elsewhere, 'Wrapped Round My Ways' begins a build up 2 minutes in that makes me want to curl up next to a fire outside in the snow with a pretty girl, a bottle of red wine and a blanket, and fall asleep under a clear sky. Who knew electronica could be this romantic? This is like a Chagall painting condensed into aural media.
You will fall in love with it.
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