Track listing
- 1 As chances 4:58
- 2 Sombra ou dúvida 4:22
- 3 Invenção 4:13
- 4 Dislexia ou transe 3:28
- 5 A tradição 4:03
- 6 Nós 3:40
- 7 Tardança 2:54
- 8 Desandar 4:30
- 9 Te quero longe 4:40
- 10 Passeio 4:13
- Total length: 41:01
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it is a completion to là vem a morte, and it does sound like it. and it is solid.
melody and poetry combines, and dinho destila palavras dúbias throughout the disc, guiding us into his deep realm of self discovery up to the boundaries of sanity, where he stand wondering...
but it seems like he leaves the boy with the Alice Wondered life by himself, cause the rabbit's hole is farthest than it's known.
fav tracks: Dislexia ou Transe, As Chances, Nós, A Tradição, Invenção
god save the rei do gado
melody and poetry combines, and dinho destila palavras dúbias throughout the disc, guiding us into his deep realm of self discovery up to the boundaries of sanity, where he stand wondering...
but it seems like he leaves the boy with the Alice Wondered life by himself, cause the rabbit's hole is farthest than it's known.
fav tracks: Dislexia ou Transe, As Chances, Nós, A Tradição, Invenção
god save the rei do gado
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Psychedelic as fuck from this Brazilian band, and all over the place sound wise but rather appealingly messy too. Like early beck producing beach house.
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Their best work, no doubt.
Sombrou Duvida is a fully fleshed out realisation of the vision of La Vem a Morte. But in doing so it incorporates some of the most popular elements from the two Boogarins albums that preceded. The band experienced a meteoric rise to indie fame shortly after starting as 2 guys recording stuff in their bedroom. Their first LP, 'As Plantas Que Curam', reflected this through a charming, rough-around-the-edges record, in which they very much wore their 60s pop influences on their sleeves. It was followed in 2015 by 'Manual', which felt polished and expansive, with much improved production, guitar work, and song structure.
2017's 'La Vem a Morte' marked a significant departure from their previous style, characterised by a cold, glitchy composition with a slight leaning on sampling without it being fully explored, with an off-kilter, uneasy structure. The end result showed promise, but was overall a little inconsistent and underdeveloped.
In and amongst all this they've gained a reputation for expansive, trance-inducing live performances. This is best characterised by their impressive KEXP live show, which I urge you to watch.
So, to 'Sombrou Duvida'. Here we see everything that characterises Boogarins in their various iterations. We see the expansive guitar work from Manual (Sombra ou Duvida), while maintaining the catchy, unapologetically 60s poppiness that endeared us to As Plantas (Dislexia ou Transe). There's clear improvisational elements present from their live performances as well (As Chances).
To achieve all of this, while balancing it with the creation of the unorthodox soundscapes we hear on this record, is a difficult task, and risks an overambitious messy final product. Experimental samples are layered upon what may have once begun as traditionally structured songs. Occasionally harsh and uncomfortable, these often linger in a background malaise, but when expanded upon, shadows of doubt become drawn-out blurts of disquiet. I'm in a cinema and the THX sound check thing is happening but has become interspersed with 40 odd minutes of psychedelic rock, and the audience starts listening when it least expects itself to be. This manifests brilliantly on track 6, Nos. On first listen I felt lulled into false security by 5 tracks of brilliantly asymmetrical psychedelia, to be greeted by a shrill, beautiful noise-pop mess.
Despite its impressive bells and whistles, Sombrou Duvida remains a clearly defined psychedelic album, but one that refuses to fall into the canards that lazy Anglophone reviewers have always applied to a forward-thinking psychedelic band, or to a Brazilian ensemble. Unfortunately, Boogarins have often fallen victim to both. This is not a Tropicalia band, and neither is it a Brazilian Tame Impala tribute act.
While, admittedly they wore their influences very much on their sleeves in the early days, an idiosyncratic, yet potentially consumer-unfriendly approach to music perhaps is what this band must do to build its identity. Nonetheless, this is the band falling under the neo-psychedelia umbrella that I feel is making the most interesting music at the moment. It is the ultimate realisation of what Boogarins have brought to us so far, yet its pure brashness, unorthodoxy and originality promise so much more to come from them.
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As chances
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Sombra ou dúvida
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Invenção
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Dislexia ou transe
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A tradição
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Nós
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Tardança
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Passeio
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