Parastatic: Recall Fade Return (CD on 104 Reds)

Band: Parastatic
Label: 104 Reds
Title: Recall Fade Return

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Band:Parastatic
Title:Recall Fade Return
Reviewed By:Erick Mertz
Date Published:14/03/2015

Label:104 Reds
Format:CD
Release Year:2015
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While listening to Parastatic's latest album ‘Recall Fade Return’, I happened to be driving down the highway past an enormous flag that was billowing in a gentle breeze. The accidental synergy between those two stimuli were astounding. I wanted to desperately to orbit that flag over and over again, drifting along the astral safari that the Krautrock inspired tunes effervesce.

There is a celestial orientation all over the ten tracks on ‘Recall Fade Return’ a mostly instrumental surrealist meld of uptempo keyboards and soaring guitar lines. The Newcastle (whose site copy uses the adjective "dank" a word which could not be any less apt) band crafts what feels like a soundtrack filled songs for the first interstellar road trip film.

A few times Parastatic brings a dreamlike vocal into their songs (the track ‘I Am One’ in particular comes to mind) but the additional element always seems to slow the song down. A stunning track suddenly feels weighted down and I would describe Rachel Casey's voice as lush and gorgeous like a cumulus cloud. I am a staunch "lyrics guy". and I felt at every turn like Parastaticshould ditch the vocal microphones and stick with what works.

If you're on the road this spring - if you happen to find yourself caught in a particularly gentle breeze this summer, catch the moment. Turn on ‘Recall Fade Return’ and cue up something like ‘Sorby Sunrise’ before circling around your axis - whatever it is - a second time.

Track Listing:

01) Recall (Intro)
02) Arches
03) Saint Mary
04) T.R.E.M.
05) Fade (Interlude)
06) Sorby Sunrise
07) I Am the One
08) Old Street
09) Oscillations
10) Return (Outro)

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Dreamy third album from Krautrock-influenced Newcastle-based three-piece, Parastatic

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