My Review: The Glass Beads - Therapy

 

The Glass Beads - Therapy

After almost three years, the Ukrainian duo's work continues to be among the best ever listened to and experienced by the old scribe: a black-blade experience, a rummaging through feelings and thoughts within The Glass Beads' heavenly and proverbial ability to be a stinging yet mysterious poem, with their well-established method of searching for melody as if a symphony orchestra had taken possession of a new electric vocation.

Can a hypnosis make us find ourselves inside damp, decaying handkerchiefs, with sadness that cannot even get angry, given such poignant beauty? This is music that wars, peacefully, with silence, in a tug-of-war that makes it win, for its plots always full of almond blossoms in December, because they know how to live and express the absurd, without limits or impediments: the Ukrainian duo has omnipotence in its hands.

They are lesiniform leaves: they hurt slowly, even if they present themselves in that way, but perhaps their slowness, the care they take to respect the listener, means that the pain comes a few hours later, because they are devices between mysticism and the conviction that nothing of them will wither.

One of the most beautiful works of all time that knows how to envelop time, carrying the illusion in our veins that the wounds can find a rest, but no: they are the creators of new spasms, but they are beautiful and regenerate the old ones. Between Darkwave, Post-Punk, Synthwave, there are these presences, songs daughters of a becoming that will intoxicate you, like a long film that you will carry in your eyes: forever…

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

30th May 2023

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