Enamored by Remora
Simple electric/acoustic guitar strumming with dark lyrics about love and loss. As cheesy as "lyrics about love and loss" sounds, this album works. From droning instrumental tracks to thick acoustic numbers, this album is experimental and unique enough to be a good/refreshing listen.
~ Everything Is Fire
I'm not familiar with the early works of Remora, but they apparently dealt in sound/noise based material with more of an emphasis on atmospheric effect than melody. These days Remora have moved towards a song-based sound, incorporating their early experiences in sound manipulation into their songwriting. Their album Enamored is largely based around tracks which effectively combine lo-fi melancholic indiepop and atmospheric post-rock/spacerock soundscaping. There is also instrumental material here; tracks such as Sorry, Beams and Knockout combine melodic riffs with atmospheric swathes of sound, whilst True Glory is more pure noise based, and Arena bridges the gap between melody and chaotic noise. Champion takes a break from noise and effects, stripping everything down to sparse guitar and voice, to hark back to the sombre side of early 90s indiepop.
~ Kim Harten, blissaquamarine
Tracklist
| 1. | weakness-strength | 3:01 |
| 2. | Arena | 1:37 |
| 3. | Bad Person | 1:27 |
| 4. | Beams | 4:30 |
| 5. | Champion | 5:23 |
| 6. | Kill My Way Out of Here | 3:46 |
| 7. | Knockout | 11:44 |
| 8. | Legends | 4:00 |
| 9. | Let It Die on the 4th of July | 2:24 |
| 10. | Out of Air | 3:44 |
| 11. | Sorry | 6:24 |
| 12. | The One I've Been Waiting For | 4:39 |
| 13. | True Glory | 3:03 |
| 14. | Volcana | 3:40 |
