A White Horse Will Take You Home
Apollon, 2022
8/10
Listen to A White Horse Will Take You Home
A band who began in secrecy thanks to Rakel and Kenneth Rasmus Greve, these days Melt Motif also includes Joe Irente, and together they make some very distinct and inviting pop sounds that embrace countless influences and never stay in one place very long.
The spacey and unpredictable buzzing of “Sleep” starts the listen with no lack of electronic fun amid the pretty vocals, and “Mine” follows with a firm beat alongside plenty of atmosphere guiding the soft singing.
Packed into the middle are “Andalusian Dog” and “Black Hole”, where the former warbles with some sci-fi leanings and the latter is quite intimate, dreamy, even stirring in its sparse beauty.
Deeper still, “Not What They Seem” is bit more dense, busy and cinematic in its darkwave nods, and “Random Access Memory” exits the listen with a nearly doom like presence that’s thick, hazy and quite charming in its unusual nature.
Fans of genres as diverse as dream-pop, industrial, indie-tronica and trip-hop will find much to adore here, and the meticulous delivery and strong production do not disappoint either.
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