My Review: Antipole & Paris Alexander - Bleached

 Antipole & Paris Alexander - Bleached 

There is no doubt, listening to this new song, taken from the forthcoming album Crystalline, that the two artists have written an immense circle of beauty, amidst vapours and subtle mysteries, encompassed within talents that know how to develop research.

If we take Bleached, we notice how Paris Alexander's pen and Karl Morten Dahl's hand are one and the same, blinking to create an atmosphere filled with a tamed tension, like an armed stream of consciousness that comes out to make the universe stimulated in welcoming this stalagmite, ingenious and effective, to connect us to an unconscious that must come out of its shell. 

On a Coldwave track with a discreet twinning with the sumptuous Nordic Darkwave, here are guitar and synth sparkles that make the track a sad-eyed meteor without leading to depression but certifying, from Paris Alexander's splendid words, that there is an obvious connection with possession that must be manifested. The guitar is a suffocating dusting of the useless that lurks over the soul: Karl, like a magician who doesn't need words, wiggles his fingers with a sequence of notes that disarm, fascinate, make our mood pleasantly gloomy.  And he knows how to keep only the indispensable active, because of his class that never encompasses what is not needed. For his part, Alexander approaches the microphone with a vocal that contains the right balance, style, effective in making his lyrics become physical, between sighs and a journey towards a baritone mode that suits him. 

If desolation and surrender can be seen, then the song will make them a dance movement, but by the end of the listening, new energy will magically arrive to give you strength...

We are taken, enraptured, conquered and there is no doubt that the two have put together an album that will teach us and give us the bridge between the real and the oneiric, on which we can walk whenever we want...

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Supino

1st May 2023

https://antipole.bandcamp.com/track/bleached