My Review: Unwed Sailor - Mute the Charm

 Unwed Sailor - Mute the Charm

A thunderbolt on the old scribe's head comes from Seattle, thanks to the divine uncontrollable beauty of Johnathon Ford's band, the butterfly that caresses Post-Rock, Pop, Shoegaze, Alternative, Post-Punk, but above all the concrete zone of heaven on earth. 

What does the music of Unwed Sailor taste like? That of a vigorous strawberry, not unripe but ripe enough to be chewed. What an unbearable joy it is to listen to these nine tracks, as one dreams with open eyes and finds harmonies that grab us by the ears, taking us precisely to that specific part of heaven that is the destination of every clean-faced soul. Irrelevant title, and therefore spectacular, because everything these songs do is to turn off the charm. I would say exactly the opposite, giving it an enormous hand to expand and find a home within the listenings that lead the imagination to make love to dreams, in the dance of the purest and most enchanting satisfaction.

The musical notes here are fawns running, chewing on fresh grass and moving elegantly through fertile soils of the earth's delicious fruits. And like a fairy tale they distribute roles and skills: hearing this grace leads to emotion through perpetually expanding melodies, like a residence that does nothing but change connotations. 

Ford (who was a bass player with Pedro the Lion) and co. with this latest work have given the idea of a fresco that cannot know ageing, because it gently caresses the need for music that suspends the blackness, that paints the stars with a continuous light. There is no need for voices in these compositions, as the instruments already say it all, in a vocabulary full of evolutions.

Among the qualities, the merits, the infinite lanes of beauty with which the album is imbued, the main and most evident is the good taste of ranging while maintaining the style, the timbre of a search that gives the songs a clear air, with the melodic/rhythmic games that always guarantee new impulses.

The guitars dig the clouds, the bass plays with the winds and the drums play with the lightning: like a silent film lost and therefore lucky not to be caught up in the welter of modern cinema full of useless dialogue, watching this film by the Americans is a wonderful way to enjoy uniqueness, and in the nine episodes you can find several of them, at enormous value, waiting for you, because strawberries can be eaten at any time of the day…

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

21st February 2023

https://unwedsailor.bandcamp.com/album/mute-the-charm