Band
Torsten Kinsella - Guitar
Niels Kinsella - Bass, Visuals
Lloyd Hanney - Drums
Jamie Dean - Piano/Synths
Gazz Carr - Guitar
GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT’s seventh full-length album “Origins“ is their first as a five-piece and cements their place as one of the world’s most intense, musically and visually-inventive post rock bands. Renowned for their searing live shows in which the music is married with provocative projected imagery, GIAA consider each of their albums to be a sonic ’photograph or snapshot of who we are in that moment of time’ and “Origins“ is perhaps their most saturated, striking snapshot to date.
Comprising a dozen tracks, “Origins“ fluctuates from controlled ferment (’Calistoga’) to plaintive, piano-led reverie (’Autumn Song’) to rhapsodic, unapologetically melodic fever (’Signal Rays’) while never losing its focus. A wide spectrum of emotions are conjured over the course of the album and, while half of the tracks feature vocals, the voices have been laden with resonant swathes of effects so as to retain a similar ambiguity to the instrumentals. It is this ambiguity that lends “Origins“ its power. The song titles are evocative but never prescriptive: for instance, a southern Californian town is suggested in ’Calistoga’ while the effect-fogged lyrics speak of finding light in a seemingly hopeless situation. Perseverance in times of emotional hardship appears to be the overriding theme of “Origins“, though it has always been the juxtaposition of seemingly disparate sounds, words and visuals that afford GIAA their singularity. The listener’s interpretation of the music is as valid as the emotions that inspired the band to make it.
The band was founded in 2002 in Glen of the Downs, Co. Wicklow by twins Niels and Torsten Kinsella, and since then has expanded to include Lloyd Hanney (drums), Jamie Dean (piano/synths) and Gazz Carr (guitar). During the recording of “Origins“, the band were additionally joined by Pat O’Donnell on vocals, guitar and keyboards, and the album’s more vocal-led, experimental guitar approach is due in no small part to “The Fountainhead“ frontman, who co-wrote many of the songs alongside Torsten.
Although sounding like GIAA the new album features a new vocal direction & a more experimental guitar approach. Experimenting with ’a multitude of stompboxes’, the newly bolstered line-up gives the songs an added richness, apparent on “Origins“ perhaps most obviously on the first single, ’Spiral Code’. The guitars twist and tangle joyously over a backdrop of energetic beats and hi-hats, creating a sound that could just as easily bring feet to a dancefloor as it could bring solace to someone listening in solitude. All in all, “Origins“ is a sublime, multifaceted album, parading a sound which has been painstakingly honed and is as forward-looking as it is faithful to the band’s own origins and influences eleven years back.
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