There is a place where shoegaze tones push up against post-rock textures, where raw sonics blend with ambient sound, dream pop soundscapes are fractured into new, more abrasive shapes, and noise and art exist in harmony. And that place is where you find the latest single from Tokyo’s Ruibetsu.
“Dawn Threshold” opens on a gentle, chiming, electronic undercurrent, a sonic base-line that is soon subsumed by walls of white-hot, razor wire guitars, but not to the extent that this core understatement doesn’t make itself known occasionally, cutting through the lulls and lows of that squalling deluge of sound.
The result is a strange but hypnotic balance of opposites, opposites that attract and merge and meld and mold and mesh. Even when those guitar noises seem in danger of flooding the musical landscape, you can still hear the welcome intrusion of more traditional sounds and percussive punctuation, making for a beguiling contrast.
This is a piece that, at its most extreme, questions what music is all about and opens a conversation about where art ends and noise begins. Much of the musical fabric of “Dawn Threshold” can only be described as noise. Yet, the overall effect is beautiful, beguiling, making for a striking contrast of art and abrasion, soundscape and sonic boom, intricacy and industrial sound.
More music should make you question such big concepts.
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