The Seven Mile Journey - January 4th - The Hypothesis Hours

During further exploration of gloomy, sneaky, disturbing sounds, I discovered sizable number of good bands and tons of bad ones. Actually, the difference between them is quite small, because they all rely on heavy, repetitive formulas; sometimes being magnificent, sometimes being terrible. All the advantage of 'good' over 'bad' is instrumental synchronization, perfection of the main concept and various quirks at the background.

Based in Aalborg, Denmark, The Seven Mile Journey may be just another post-rock band if they just sat and play guitar melodies that everyone could compose. But in fact, they are doing thing I really love: experimenting with bass layers, shoegaze textures, calm atmosphere... This is kind of music which starts out slow, builds up even slower, but eventually comes to inspiring, powerful finale. Basing more on 'spiritual' than 'straightforward' power, it's really the attitude which catches my attention these days.

Oh, well, I just found out: this guys probably hold a Guiness Record of a band that had the longest period between teaming up and recording anything. Seven Mile's first EP was released seven (what a coincidence) years after they started playing (which happened in 1995). Gosh, screw you music labels for not noticing them before.

The Seven Mile Journey - January 4th - The Hypothesis Hours




Artist: The Seven Mile Journey
Album: The Metamorphosis Project (2008)
Track: January 4th - The Hypothesis Hours
Track Number: 4
Track Length: 8:55
Labels: Conspiracy Records (BEL)