My review: Ruined Church - Ruined Church (Ep)

 

Ruined Church - Ruined Church (Ep)

We would often like to receive harmonies, delicacies, physical and sonic caresses in order to smile and find strength.

Like an endless St. Patrick's well, we look for all this in music too, and with the French Ruined Church we can finally feel an inner triumph.

Songs that show the liveliness of the alternative scene of a country that suffers a little with regard to Shoegaze and Dreampop, struggling to play the role it deserves.

So let's fly through these nine minutes, four tracks, where we learn to cherish joy and reflections, closing our eyes tightly as our imagination takes us on an emotional ride.

There is something mysterious hovering inside their songs: we have to persevere in listening and the measure of their value emerges when from the amplifiers we are able to grasp the magical work of the levels of the instruments, the homogeneity of their melodic lines, the richness of semi-hidden guitars and a bass full of colours, drums that manage to give further incentives to songs born with an imprinting that enchants us since the first listening.

Everything flows to be an oasis, an apparent illusion that however changes clothes and becomes real and convincing: this band knows how to cross the possibilities of musical genres in approaching and mixing without friction.

The changing rhythms, the proposed scenarios are frames of a film that develops its plot giving the impression that the script was written on the clouds: everything moves from the north to the south of our minds to seduce us as if it were an act of faith.

In less than two years, these angels of the clouds are changing the way we look at the sky and their songs are the seal of intense dreams...

U All immediately opens the channels of our sighs and drags us into a barefoot dance, with sweet vocals which contrast with the intersection of guitars that, swirling, throw themselves on clouds protected by the bass and drums that, cohesive, illuminate the sparkle of a song that immediately enters our heart.

You remain dancing bodies with the following Online, in which the 90s seem to whisper fascinations and points of contact.

Distortions and guitars of Darkwave matrix peep out: they are happy, they don't try to show their superiority and play, happily, hide and seek, giving the impression that with these vocals they could have great cards at their disposal.

We know Haze well and it's like having a hand on our shoulder: we find security and comfort, although since two years ago I feel a poignant melancholy that makes it perfect. In its simple structure, the song shows how the American Shoegaze is perfectly identified by the French guys who, with a few variations, give it a touch of originality that moistens our eyes.

The splendid SSRO.exe concludes the whole thing: 53 seconds of Shoegaze with grease on the feet, a shining example of their ductility, which abandoning the tone towards the end gives drama and tension.

It's ep's like this that are able to generate feelings of love and fidelity, they do it quickly and with an enthusiasm which becomes a sweet roar of the heart.

Alex Dematteis 

Musicshockworld 

Salford

30th January 2022

https://ruinedchurch.bandcamp.com/album/ruined-church