Monday 8 November 2010

it may not change the world – but it may just change your life


10th C RELEASES WITH YELLOW6


as someone who grew up on punk in the early 80s, yellow6's jon attwood knows that three chords can change the world. in fact, his own music is based on the very same promise – even though his means of playing them are strikingly different.

on in time this too will fade, roughly his 80th release in just over a decade, attwood again leads his audience into his emotional vortex of slowly rotating acoustic and electric guitar themes, repeating and almost imperceptibly varying until all sense of space, time and direction is lost. appearing mournful and melancholic only at first sight, these three rituals, of which opener 00:30 alone takes up the entire a-side, lead listeners inwards, to a place where hope and consolation can be found through harmony and silence. even though echoes of post rock and ambient are clearly discernible, yellow6's influences rather stem from a string of idiosyncratic musicians at the fringe between trip-hop (portishead's adrian utley), dark folk (sophia), moody post-metal (jesu) and drones (fear falls burning). ignoring the hype-machine of the traditional music industry, attwood caters to no expectations but his own, recording only when inspiration hits him. or as he simply puts it: "sometimes things happen and sometimes they don't".


both more elegiac and tender than his recent, wilfully experimental full-length cut, in time this too will fade resembles a gently rolling hillside in the night, drenched in a glowing beam of moonlight. although the album differs from its predecessors in the sense that these pieces were played live first before recording them in the studio, this is still very much music capable of moving its audience without any kind of complicated concepts: attwood is picking his guitar, soft feedback and overtones are floating in the air and a single moment is stretching into infinity. it may not change the world – but it may just change your life.


in time this too will fade is released on tonefloat's c-imprint on clear vinyl and in a limited edition of 300 copies. the release date is november 29, 2010, and the album is available for pre-orders from the tonefloat store.


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