Greg Fenton reviews Trentemøller – Dreamweaver – In My Room
Listening to A Different Light casts your mind back to a time when music was crafted by a human hand, sketched out and created to shift your soul around, maybe even break it into pieces. The exceptional thing about Trentemøller is the way he makes music absorb the past while funneling sounds directly into the future, remaining vital and timeless. Soak up the opening, A Different Light as Disa’s melodies haunt you and guitars strum across your being like floating embers. The impressions are beautiful.
The music that follows is concise, crisp to the point of perfection, and yet is draped in a fantastic, bright light of illumination that pulls your heartstrings apart. I guess what I’m trying to convey amounts to the same thing. After all this music is breathtaking in every fiery sense of that word encapsulating a palette ranging from dark to heavenly.
By the time you get to Dreamweavers fireworks explode as anthems get heavy. Watch out for the arpeggios and heavy snares after the breakdown, simply stunning. The deep trademark of reverberation is again reached for on Hollow, as sparks fall into the unconsciousness amid plucked guitars and gently booming drums.
While you can hear the echo of a few favourite bands resound in some of the songs influences are soaked up and then reinterpreted anew, try In A Storm. Not surprisingly the final number is Closure which returns you to another evocative tear-jerking refrain in the form of crumbling piano, terse guitar, and fantastical motifs to elevate and replenish.
Release: September 13
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