It is fair to say that the music I have encountered so far from FHMY, “my blue heaven” and “I Keep On Not Dying” (both, incidentally featuring musical collaborator AQL,) have both sufficiently piqued my interest to make me anticipate a full-length release from this Egyptian shoegaze/dream pop soundscaper. And here it is.
The World You Grew Up In No Longer Exists is not only a cool title; it is also the umbrella name for 10 songs that wander between those two genres and skirt associated musical pastures such as post- and math-rock and even some noisy/ambient playoffs.
If “Egyptian Football” leads the listener in with lovely cascades of jangling guitar and “memoriesyouwillneverfeelagain” rumbles away on a clockwork groove forged from circular and wonderfully odd guitar machinations, the aforementioned “my blue heaven” is not unlike a long-lost “My Bloody Valentine” track, ethereal yet shot through with harsher harmonics.
The title track is a mathy instrumental, shimmering and full of strange time signatures, and “Do Humans Dream of Electric Sheep” is suitably Vangelisian drifting and dark, futuristic and majestic, bleak and brilliantly rendered – Blade Runner fans will understand the connection I am making here.
As great as those singles I have already encountered, it takes an entire album of tracks to display the scale and scope of FHMY’s sonic vision, but I knew that would be the case. And what a vision it is.
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