MuN
Presomnia
Piranha Music
MuN from Wrocław/Poland is the band playing a psychedelic music. Those psychedelic sensations in their songs are balanced between thin line of dream and reality, which manifests itself most where the band does not use those metal guitar effects (Intro) that just sound more like emotionally driven music. There is a post-rock doom ( Arthur) and post-metal/groove (Scowl) in music of Mun... Some tracks have it even all, but sound is a bit more dynamic at places (Topple), and in song like Verity they make a lot of smoke musically by playing the mixture of post-doom metal with sludge and groove - good vibrations from this song. As for this album, song Deceit is kind of brutal - sound there in is dirty and sludgy, and vocals have its weight too. So, songs have plenty of undistorted guitar sounds that may wake your imagination and process the music of the band better, and, when the time comes, they add heavier guitars to the sound where musically MuN combines all the genres that I just wrote about with psychedelia, stoner and aggressive or even growling vocals. I am not fond of clean singing on this record, particularly in few first songs, where there is neither anything melodic or spiritual in it, which I think is what they have tried to do for a bit, and it just did not come out convincingly. The only song where clean vocals works better with those nice humming parts is in the track Decree, which is 13 minutes long marathon of atmospheric post-rock metal and stoner.
Songs of the band keeps me in a slumber for some times where I subconsciously follow those more dreamy fragments in music. Other half of the album is more dynamic and just noisier if you like - it`s where stoner, sludge and post-doom metal vibes collide, with rather average musical outcome...
There are better elements of this album - instrumentally the record sounds okey but music lack diversity, and weaker moments - many vocal lines do not work well with music. In today's world that is full of music to choose from, it's not enough for an album like Presomnia to be my favourite record.
Songs of the band keeps me in a slumber for some times where I subconsciously follow those more dreamy fragments in music. Other half of the album is more dynamic and just noisier if you like - it`s where stoner, sludge and post-doom metal vibes collide, with rather average musical outcome...
There are better elements of this album - instrumentally the record sounds okey but music lack diversity, and weaker moments - many vocal lines do not work well with music. In today's world that is full of music to choose from, it's not enough for an album like Presomnia to be my favourite record.
Tracklist:
1 Intro
2 Scowl
3 Arthur
4 Topple
5 Deceit
6 Verity
7 Decree
1 Intro
2 Scowl
3 Arthur
4 Topple
5 Deceit
6 Verity
7 Decree
Review by Slawek Migacz
Added: 22.12.2020
Added: 22.12.2020
