![]() ![]() It’s deceptively breezy music, but there are so many layers of sound at work, so many little details. Guitars and synths smear and blur into each other, surreal and oneiric but never anything less than euphoric. The airy timbres of the instrumentation leave you feeling weightless. It’s a record that you feel, if played at the correct volume, might somehow cause you to physically levitate. You’ll notice I used the words ‘blissful’ and ‘ecstatic’ back there these are the two most apt words that I can use to convey the feeling captured on Polysomn. Strangely though the song lengths are more concise, it’s perhaps not as instant as Ruination on first listen, coming across as a slightly more textural effort, but before you know it, you’re firmly sucked into its orbit. It’s safe to say that first taste wasn’t a fluke, and that Polysomn is another absolute beauty. First single An Bat None indicated they weren’t going to steer us wrong, leaning perhaps in a more succinct direction but not compromising the ecstatic nature of their previous work. Polysomn arrives with no small amount of anticipation to those already hitched firmly to the Kairon wagon. It’s been a long wait to see where they’d land after that sprawling musical journey. They took elements, you knew in your heart should fit together, even though no-one had really managed it, and finally made it work. We last heard from these Finns on 2017’s tower of strength Ruination, a minor masterpiece showcasing a seamless blend of prog, shoegaze and possibly the greatest bass sound ever committed to tape.
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