We’ve been gifted the premiere of the video for Sounds of Sputnik‘s ‘Overdrive’ featuring Ummagma, from the band’s debut album ‘New Born’. By the way, this track features drums by Graham Bonnar (Swervedriver, Brian Jonestown Massacre). Watch it below. First some thoughts on ‘New Born’.
A Cocteau-ian dream waltz is probably the best way to describe the demurring ‘New born’. Prized from the Sounds of Sputnik full length of the same name, it’s a collaborative shared experience with shoegaze duo Ummagma who both gathered together to enrich each others sonic spectrum – the sum greater than its parts if you must.
‘New Born’ is aglow in an enigmatic gracefulness teased in a statuesque poise, draped in the fineries of a classicist sonic tongue that finds itself steeled between the tender, the bruised and the yearning. Like an orbiting satellite relaying lost love noted distress messages into the heavenly voids serenaded seductively to an almost balletic arc that shimmers crushingly to sly surrender all the time dimpled in sepia hazes and ethereal glazes. In short utterly transfixing and as though visited upon by some celestial happening.
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