Music Review//The Longdrone Flowers - Cesare Runs Away E.P.
The black and white
cover art of Cesare Runs Away speaks of long, drawn out nights in Andy Warhol’s
Factory with time becoming merely a needless distraction. This feeling is
reflected in the dark, kraut rock melodies of the E.P. and whilst the Factory
is long gone in physical form you could seriously imagine hearing this music in
the early hours of a particularly inspiration fueled night there.
Opener Righteousness
turns the dimmer switch right to midnight tinged darkness, with the hypnotic,
repetitive psych melody waking you from reality only to give you a dark gloved
slap in the face. If, as the band say, they have poured all their sweet love
and savage hate into this record then the torture surely begins here. As
weapons of torture go this is particularly sweet and not very likely to leave
any bruise. Masochistic melodies win!
The tone lightens up
for the middle three songs and, especially on Adore Me you hear that
aforementioned sweet love come into musical form as the band urge an unknown somebody
to adore them in tones verging in the desperate – but perhaps that’s the savage
hate part? For the closer we return to the building dark riffs and drums for In
Cupids Garden (Pouring Down With Rain) – and it’s a brooding, giant stomping like
monster of a song that stretches the love over almost eight and a half minutes
until the sound is seemingly unbearable for them.
The elements of psych
and kraut merge perfectly in this E.P and it positively revels in its doom
laden gothic soundscape. Never has pain seemed so creatively put to use and
instead of burying the darkness shiny happy chords the band make a scene so
desolate and black you want to explore it even more.
Reviewed by Sebastian
Gahan.