DANDELION WINE's latest album "All Becompassed by Stars" takes the increased energy and danceability of 2008's "Selected Anachronisms" to a new level of intensity, whilst simultaneously featuring some of the band's most ethereal and beautiful work to date.
The result is an album of extremes, with a distinct dichotomy between the pounding beats of songs such as "Gravity" and the delicate acoustic flourishes of "Early Warning Sign" or the ambient textures of "Seven Times As Bright". However, even amid the most intense songs, the band's trademark use of medieval and world instruments is still clearly evident, with dulcimers, bell cittern and flutes ringing out over the fat analogue synths, big beats and cranked guitars.
While the band have frequently flirted with non-western rhythms over the years, on "All Becompassed by Stars" these rhythms come to the fore, with layers of Indian, Middle Eastern and African percussion driving many of the songs. Adding to the Australian duo's usual array of unconventional instrumentation are the bell cittern (a late-medieval twelve-string instrument akin to the mandolin) and sansula (a German variation of the African kalimba or thumb piano).
Tracklist: 01 All Becompassed by Stars 03:17 02 Gravity 04:52 03 Shards 04:53 04 Nowhere 05:43 05 Sidereal 05:32 06 Early Warning Sign 06:22 07 Orbit 04:52 08 XVII 07:54 09 Seven Times As Bright 06:08
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