: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : Artist......: I Break Horses : Album.......: Warnings : : Label.......: Bella Union .. .:.. . Genre.......: Indie : Catnr.......: BELLA964CD . ' Source......: CD , ; Rip.date....: 2020-06-17 Str.date....: 2020-05-08 Quality.....: 256kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://www.ibreakhorses.se ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 1. Turn 9:00 2. Silence 4:28 3. l a r m 1:03 4. I'll Be the Death of You 4:37 5. d e n l i l l a p σ s e a v l y c k a 1:59 6. The Prophet 5:41 7. Neon Lights 5:44 8. I Live at Night 4:29 9. Baby You Have Travelled for Miles Without Love 4:24 in Your Eyes 10. Death Engine 7:51 11. a b s o l u t a m o l l p u n k t e n 2:17 12. Depression Tourist 2:33 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 54:06 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 106.34______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: The name Warnings naturally suggests something foreboding. :, : Whether reflecting on the signs you missed but should've seen, : :' or imagining what could be around the corner, there is danger ': ,: in it, there is tumultuousness in it. Maria LindΘn's new album :, : as I Break Horses uses the title, and sure enough, plenty of : :' turmoil still lingers in this music. But you don't get the ': ,: sound of anxiety. You don't get the sound of the apocalypse. :, : Instead, LindΘn's been working her way toward these songs and : :' out of the struggles that inform them for more than half a ': ,: decade. On this Warnings, what you get is the sound of patience. :, : close : :' ': ,: Warnings is defined by a beauty that takes time to reveal :, : itself, flickers of inspiration LindΘn had to search for as : :' things burned down around her. It's not as if she's been off ': ,: painting or writing a novel or something in seclusion and just :, : recently returned to writing I Break Horses songs; the album : :' seemingly really did take all these years to materialize. ': ,: LindΘn has mentioned all kinds of stop-start trials: different :, : studios, collaborations falling through, losing work thanks to a : :' crashed hard drive, starting from scratch, eventually finishing ': ,: the album at home. Somewhere in the past, she'd used her :, : favorite movies as writing prompts, playing them on mute and : :' composing imagined soundtracks. That process itself waits on ': ,: revelation, crafting atmospheres and then starting to notice the :, : songs that wanted to emerge from within. Whether functionally or : :' spiritually, Warnings had to be pulled from the ether, given ': ,: shape. :, : : :' In the abstract, that's what I Break Horses albums have often ': ,: done. They capture this gorgeous, hissing haze, and then these :, : sharp flashes of clarity shooting through the air. When I Break : :' Horses first arrived at the beginning of last decade with ': ,: 2011's Hearts, people spoke of them as being shoegaze-esque, :, : this being during that mini-shoegaze-revival moment. But they : :' were never really a part of that, as the heady mix of shoegaze ': ,: and electronic and dream-pop that dominated 2014's Chiaroscuro :, : proved. Nor were they really in step with whatever micro : :' electronic pop trends arose at the time. Now, on the other side ': ,: of that decade, they exist with even less context, which suits :, : them. I Break Horses have always made music that lights up the : :' mysteries inside us with giant, emotive soundscapes, music that ': ,: you could sink deep into or use as transport to some imagined :, : far away place. All of this just makes Warnings that much more : :' enveloping. ': ,: :, : "It's not a political album," LindΘn said in an early press : :' release during Warnings' rollout. "Though it relates to the ': ,: alarmist times we live in. Each song is a subtle warning of :, : something not being quite right." In some ways, the twilit fog : :' of Warnings feels of our time, strained meditations assembled ': ,: while trying to ignore the chaos outside. While some big-picture :, : ideas enter, Warnings really feels like an account of romantic : :' strife, the distance between people at the end of things and ': ,: the tentative glimpses of other lives and new characters. :, : : :' Speaking of patience, LindΘn opens her long-awaited new I Break ': ,: Horses album with a nine-minute epic called "Turn" that catalogs :, : the collapse of a relationship: resolving to leave in the first : :' verse, telling her soon-to-be-former partner "You're wasting my ': ,: time and my future" in the second, before finally deciding, :, : "Turn/ I can't turn love around/ And I'm losing my mind." "Turn" : :' rides along the sort of floating, circular synth pattern that ': ,: feels like you're tumbling through a blurred highlight reel, :, : remembering important people or passages in your life as they : :' fade into a filmic, impressionistic backdrop; or, rather, you ': ,: could perceive it as a sort of amusement park of your :, : nightmares, lilting carousel melodies grown corroded as you spin : :' around and around through the same patterns, until you finally ': ,: manage to leap off the ride. :, : : :' Similar sentiments are scattered throughout Warnings. Right ': ,: after "Turn," in "Silence": "I put a river/ You put an ocean/ :, : Between you and me/ Can't go on/ I don't even know you anymore." : :' In the album's closer "Depression Tourist," LindΘn sings, "You ': ,: dream about making love/ Against the wall/ But there's never :, : really room to make/ Love at all/ We hold on to your dreams/ Our : :' broken dreams/ To keep our promises/ We're a broken team." She ': ,: delivers it all through a ghostly vocoder, as if to illustrate :, : the way our lives suddenly seem foreign and unrecognizable to us : :' the deeper we've entangled ourselves in broken situations. ': ,: Sometimes the chronology and perspective shift - "I'll be the :, : death of you" is a different kind of warning, a doomed yet : :' alluring come-on. In one of the final stretch's many climactic ': ,: moments, LindΘn sings the title of "Baby You Have Travelled For :, : Miles Without Love In Your Eyes" over and over, like a : :' sympathetic hand reaching back to her old self. ': ,: :, : All of this is rendered in a world that is psychedelic and : :' bleary at once, LindΘn building up layers upon layers of ': ,: immaculate synth textures that you could perceive equally as :, : lush visions or long drained sighs. Most of Warnings swells and : :' pulses; even its more direct moments don't really delve into ': ,: the soaring thrust of "Winter Beats" or the moody dance churn of :, : "Faith." There are long, contemplative sections of Warnings, : :' there are drifts like "I Live At Night" and suggestive segues ': ,: as instrumental interstitials throughout. Much of the album :, : seems to occur in transition, still-unfolding personal : :' reckonings and disintegrations. Throughout, Warnings provides a ': ,: perfect sound for those in-between spaces, nebulous and vibrant :, : but not escapist. While mostly unfailingly beautiful, it has a : :' hint of distortion haunting the edges, like old Technicolor ': ,: under a few decades' worth of grime and damage. :, : : :' In that context, each time something rises up above - a ': ,: melancholic melody, a synth line that bursts rather than :, : searches - it feels like a small resolution. And those moments : :' of clarity stick with you. "I'll Be The Death Of You" and "Neon ': ,: Lights" lean towards the poppier side of I Break Horses' sound, :, : perhaps more than ever - but they are still otherworldly, : :' infectious yet slightly trippy and washed-out. Each time LindΘn ': ,: brings herself to a peak of intensity, it's overwhelming, the :, : sound of someone finally surfacing for air. It happens when the : :' beat picks up underneath the final refrain in "Neon Lights," ': ,: and it happens again in the intensifying currents at the end of :, : "Baby You Have Travelled For Miles Without Love In Your Eyes." : :' ': ,: Warnings essentially concludes with "Death Engine." (One more :, : instrumental and "Depression Tourist" form an epilogue.) And in : :' that sense, it brackets the album with "Turn," two long, ': ,: emotionally raw monoliths. One is pissed-off, fed-up, a resigned :, : and long-delayed goodbye. The other is all empathy, grappling : :' with a friend's suicide attempt and the dire places we arrive ': ,: at as a generation, as a society. There aren't really neat bows :, : tied around any part of Warnings; it still depicts those things : :' that are over there, waiting for us later. But it traces ': ,: loneliness across a spectrum, pulling away from those we :, : shouldn't be near and offering some kind of solace with those we : :' should. The music, perhaps more than the chillier or more ': ,: cerebral moments on past I Break Horses albums, often offers the :, : same. : :' ': ,: LindΘn had planned to make her comeback as I Break Horses in a :, : far different world, one in which she wanted to encourage : :' everyone to slow down in a time that was frantic and fragmented ': ,: and disorienting. Instead, we now all have to live with a :, : certain amount of quiet and stillness. We all have a lot of time : :' to think about, well, time, and how we've spent it, and how ': ,: we'll spend it later; to think about the people we've known and :, : the things that have faded away. It turns out that Warnings : :' might be more appropriate now than ever, not reacting to the ': ,: noise of the world but giving us a place to sit and sift through :, : what we've known. And eventually, along the way, you can start : :' to hear colors seep into new shapes, new futures crystallizing ': ,: out of murk and the gradual bloom of new beginnings. :, : : :' ': : ' '.. ..' .. . :........... . . . . ............: . . ______________ ______________ \ / \ / \ / Shout out to all our homies from: \ / \ / \ / \ / iPC BOSS HiT2000 1way UKi i8 RNS \ / \ / RAGEMP3 MANDY DV8 pLAN9 BUTT \ / \ / \ / \/ ____ ____ \/ \ / F A N G \ / \/ 2 0 2 0 \/