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Here’s another interesting new Polish progrock named
Pinkroom, it’s a duo featuring Mariusz Boniecki (guitar,
vocals, keyboards and samples) and Marcin Kledzik (drums
and percussion) with the additional bass player Kacper Ostrowski
and guest musicians on vocals, cello and ‘guitar noise’.***
Their music is a pretty emotional experience, I am sure
the band members have sublimated a wide range of emotions
and feelings into the Pinkroom sound, from despair and loneliness
to anger to aggression. I often notice a lot of tension
in the music, very captivating and compelling! Listening
to this album bands like Porcupine Tree and Riverside come
to my mind in the mellow parts and in the more heavy parts
I think about King Crimson, in my opinion their main source
of inspiration: the twanging guitar in the intricate first
track Path Of Dying Truth (sensational break with mindblowing
contrast between the heavy guitar riffs and the soaring
violin-Mellotron) and Moodroom v. 2 (wonderful cello and
short but powerful trumpet sound), a biting Fripperian guitar
in the alternating Quietus (from swinging to propulsive)
and especially the fiery and aggressive sound in Stonegarden
(propulsive guitar and drums and fiery guitar leads) and
Days Which Should Not Be (great tension and beautiful conclusion
with violin). In the other five tracks Pinkroom also succeeds
to keep my full attention and to surprise me, often by sudden
changing climates from dreamy and sultry to heavy and aggressive
with harder-edged guitar work (reminding me of Metallica)
and a thunderous rhythm-section. Or the other way like from
the dreamy Curse with soaring keyboards, all sorts of sounds
and fragile piano play to the next song 2am that almost
blow you away featuring exciting rock guitar and powerful
drum beats. And after the heavy and bombastic eruptions
in Days Which Should Not Be, you can enjoy the mellow Floydian-like
ballad Recognized with fine acoustic rhythm guitar and warm
vocals. Frequently the tracks are blended with samples and
distorted vocals and instruments, this adds an extra, a
bit psychedelic and hypnotizing dimension to the Pinkroom
sound.***
If you are up to compelling progrock with Heavy Prog
and some prog metal elements, this is an album to discover!***
Rating: 4 of 5 Stars! [4 of 5 Stars!]
Erik
Neuteboom
Progwalhalla.nl
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