Greg Fenton reviews Sijya – Leather & Brass – One Little Independent Records
I almost love this, and the unforgiving way life becomes dislocated and how that feeling is expressed. I only want to crash, it’s heart-warming in a bleak mode, reminding me of flickering media lost in the distortion of fading ideas. It touches the heart with yearning, grainy stabs, and sometimes, as voices brush against the arrangement, the soul is found inside warmer chords appearing like early morning sunshine, only to be surpassed by its brief life span of under three minutes. Rust, follows the sequence.
The industrial landscape of Do I Know allows the voice space to speak freely, much as the more effective Safe does. However, it’s the temptingly radical application of sounds that really engages the vocals IMO. Why do you fight me, is heartbreaking in its intensity. Here, that’s a good thing. Whereas Tabla provides more of a curiosity in musical terms, feeling brighter in tone, while the words extract a broken revenge that draws you into the language of cause and effect.
Release: September 12
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Sijya
One Little Independent Records
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