It isn’t often that I get to the other side of a review, having learned something. If I do, it is usually some musical insight or idea I may have overlooked, sonic practice, or musical machination that makes me stop and think. Being a person to whom words are essential, encountering one for the first time, especially one as majestic as “Alpenglow,” is always a cause for celebration.
A majestic word needs an equally majestic song to bring it to life. The new one from Lounne does exactly that. Named for that pale rose-red glow seen reflected on mountainsides as the sun slips below the horizon, “Alpenglow” is a perfect and poised sonic brush.
Taking equal amounts of shoegaze-haze and indie-folk accessibility, shimmering sonics, and lilting, tumbling banjo, “Alpenglow” is a beautiful contradiction, a song that embraces big guitars and driving drums but also ambiance and understatement. It is a song that takes traditional folk sounds into contemporary places or injects nuance and elegance into indie’s often brash ways. It’s a song that feels too good for the mainstream, too discerning, too deft, too delicate but which, given the right prevailing sonic winds, deserves to blow through it anyway, making it a better place for the songs passing.
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