My Review: Abrasive Tree - Moulding Heaven With Heart

 My Review:

Abrasive Trees - Moulding Heaven With Heart

There is a mysterious wave that keeps its identity without allowing an analysis that could make it visible.

It often happens in music because it is part of its path, like a duty that cannot be avoided, a way that may seem irreverent but necessary.

From a Scotland always capable of creating talents and artists endowed with sensitivity, beauty and immense writing skills, here comes Matthew Rochford with a single, two songs to expand the sense of benefit through a deep, essential modality, like a cloud that rides the sky to colour it with dew and to give it that thrill which keeps it alive.

The impression that comes from listening to these tracks is that of seeing sweetness and bitterness in perfect harmony on the expressive side.

You dream while your eyes experience liquid movements in their edges, you dance slowly like a yellow Colias, a beautiful butterfly thirsty for flowers.

Because this is what the two songs are: flying animals hungry for beauty and food which know how to be generous, because you only have to see them to be happy.

I don't know if it is useful to define the musical genre: it would seem as always limiting and perhaps even useless, because it would reduce the ability to deepen the sensation of sonic drops imbued not only with beauty and mystery, but also with that sense of an identity that could be offended by the attribution of meaningless words.

Whether it is Post-Rock, Post-Punk, Ambient, a more delicate Dreampop  than usual or Experimental Rock, there's little need to say it or to know it: where there is the ability to achieve uniqueness, every addition becomes superfluous.

It's thrill, shaking, provision, flight, seriousness tinged with positivity, for a beating of wings as a form of enjoyment and survival.

Moulding Heaven With Earth is a slow pastel-coloured ride, guitars working in the introduction with a charming and engaging spoken word, then growing in the song form. It is Scotland with its most extreme beauty that the butterfly takes us to admire, with the guitar drawing a circle in which to feel secure, for a melody that is explosive in its almost melancholic stillness. 

If you really want to define it in a musical genre it is Post-Rock of remarkable workmanship, a rolling on the meadows in the midst of wind and lightning: something short lives in the melancholy of this guitar that seems a melodic killer.

Then it's Kali that nails us to the emotion again: Vini Really, Jeff Buckley and Robert Smith seem intent on drawing dense poetry inside these magnetic guitars, while the voice shows a pungent singing, full of power and sadness. We go up with the wind to examine the leaden areas of the sky, we become a drop to gently explode without making too much noise, because in that part of the world there is still a need for a respectful silence. 

The Ep ends with the Rothko remix version of Moulding Heaven With Heart and everything becomes even more dilated and gloomy.

In conclusion: you will be charmed and surely conquered by these compositions rich in poetry with a sense of alarm on their skin.

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld 

Salford

23 April 2022

The EP will be available from the 28th of April. You can currently find the song Moulding Heaven With Earth on Bandcamp.

https://abrasivetrees.bandcamp.com/album/moulding-heaven-with-earth-kali-sends-sunflowers