Wild Alee (CD)
Talos
Amoeba Review
06/26/2018
Irish architect Eoin French applies the form, balance and structure taught by his trade to the soaring emotional hooks of his indie pop project Talos. His striking new album Wild Alee, recorded in Dublin, Cork and Iceland with co-producer Ross Dowling, builds on the series of catchy, powerful singles Talos released over the past three years. These slow-building anthems evoke melancholy and inner fire, carefully crafting spare northern soundscapes from guitar, drums and electronics, all guided by French’s skilled, yearning falsetto. Songs like "Tethered Bones," "In Time" and "Your Love is an Island" express deep struggle and the tenuous but all-consuming connections that link separate souls, in the vein of James Blake or Jon Hopkins. Powerful meditations that move between autumnal warmth and glacial isolation.
Track Listing
Disc 1 Titles |
Artist |
Length |
---|---|---|
1.
Runaway
|
Talos | 03:57 |
2.
Odyssey
|
Talos | 04:47 |
3.
In Time
|
Talos | 04:38 |
4.
Piece[s]
|
Talos | 02:13 |
5.
Contra
|
Talos | 03:45 |
6.
Endgame
|
Talos | 03:42 |
7.
Tethered Bones
|
Talos | 04:22 |
8.
This Is Us Colliding
|
Talos | 03:54 |
9.
209
|
Talos | 03:51 |
10.
Your Love Is An Island
|
Talos | 03:56 |
11.
Landscapes
|
Talos | 04:10 |
12.
Wetlands
|
Talos | 02:42 |
13.
Voices
|
Talos | 03:23 |