Dyo nees parousiaseis tou Home, prosfora tou gallikou dwmatiou (mazi me tis babelfish metafraseis tous):
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Will there are groups like that, one cannot be prevented from awaiting each one of their album with febrility "What they still succeed in laying us this time? Will they be to the height?... "Useless to say to you that The Gathering is these. Each new album is synonymous with insupportable waiting and a little insane hope. The Home, latest to date , does not disappoint the latter, and if it surprises less than its predecessor, Souvenirs, it is only for better persuading us and us enivrer its moving melodies and graciles - forgive of little.
How to describe the music of The Gathering? Answer: one cannot. The Gathering was seen, feels, and over all, listens itself. Home is the most perfect example: than ever carried more on the atmospheres and environments, the album offers to its listener all softness, all the melancholy and all the purity of the world. Seldom the music touched the heart as directly and imperiously as that of The Gathering, and a fortiori of their last album. Simpler and easy of access that Memories, Home appears of a deep coherence, never diverting and yet on several occasions surprising: Solace with its voices spoken in various languages and its rhythmic entêtante, Box and its lyricism impresses intimism, and always the singer Anneke, more engrossing than ever, who do of it neither too much nor too little, her voice controlled to the extreme which always takes without the least hesitation the most direct way to penetrate with deepest of the hearts and the memories.
So vocally, Home is probably the album more succeeded of The Gathering, musicalement, it seems to return in the traces of the If_Then_Else album, giving up the side experimental and abstract of Memories to privilege a "trip rock'n'roll" intimist and deeply human. In rise from the songs at more removed rates/rhythms, such as Shortest Day or Your Troubles Are Over, both confusing simplicity and mixing with skill samples and guitars, with always this air character which constitutes the claw of The Gathering. The rises to power are quite present, just as the passages in total weightlessness (the station-wagon of Alone, incredible). The group does not forget any therefore the purified songs emphasizing the voice of Anneke accompanied by a simple piano (Forgotten) and always takes a malicious pleasure to scramble the tracks by déstructurant its compositions: Waking Hour should leave of it more than one dreamer, and the six minutes of A Noise Severe pass like a letter to the post office.
The characteristic of The Gathering is undoubtedly due to this so particular sound, cottony, planing, and which however striking with deepest of the entrails, as with this capacity to unceasingly renew a kind which they are the only ones to exploit. A prowess which enables them never not to fall into vulgarity, even when the songs are done accessible. The melodies follow one another, learnedly studied, carved, engraved, modelled and ad infinitum reorganized... In fact, nothing really spontaneous in this album, one feels each piece thought and worked in order to tap the maximum of its potential to him. The direction of the arrangement of The Gathering is not any more to prove, and takes all its measurement on titles like Alone or In Between, in which each detail (in particular rhythmic, as discrete the as complex one) finds its importance. The Gathering can also strip superfluity and offer moments of pure daydream, like Home and of sound during hypnotic, Forgotten Reprise again. Nothing like it to complete an album with softness, and a small after-taste of inescapable as last measurements move away...
Paperboard full for this new album with The Gathering, perhaps musicalement less committed than its predecessor, less intellectual, but who shows a remarkable maturity. Benefitting from a sound an astonishing depth (due perhaps to the conditions of recording, in an old Dutch church), Home deploys its penetrating colors, oscillating like always and with brilliance between darkness and clearness. Not a revolution, but after all, since it is what The Gathering made best, why change?
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After a live DVD left in this beginning year (soon chroniqué on PW), The Gathering, figure from now on impossible to circumvent of the atmospheric scene, arrive again in the vats with their new work "Home". It is not really a surprise, The Gathering continues here on its impetus by proposing an album in the line of their precedent opus "Memories".
Home is thus not presented in the form of an album of handing-over in question. Quite to the contrary, it confirms leaning it started since "memories" which had seen the disappearance of the slow and heavy riffs to the profit of more acoustic and purified compositions.
If any aspect metal voluntarily disappeared, it becomes increasingly difficult to define the musical kind in which the formation evolves/moves. The rock'n'roll cotoie the magnet with some incursions Trip-Hopesques into often felted melancholic persons, sometimes dark environments.
The identity of the group is always also present. Sonorities of the piano or the guitars, the soft rises to power or arrangements are found quite naturally without giving an impression of already heard titles.
But it is necessary to return in Cesar what belongs to Cesar... "The Gathering" would not have become what it is without the song of its frontwoman, Anneke. Once more, the singer of this formation makes wonders. Its precise and poignant interpretation illuminates each title of the album. There is not any doubt that the work of writing was completed to propose the vocal talent of Anneke, work so right that one comes from there to wonder whether the words of certain refrains are not expressly selected to make crack the listener.
"Home" thus proves to be the worthy successor of "Memories". The fans will be obviously filled even if one can sometimes be aggravated by rates/rhythms a little too binary. As-with those which do not connaitraient "The Gathering yet", it would be time to fill this gap and to be interested in the discography of this group which abounds in good musical moments.
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