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It’s
hard to pass judgment considering this EP only has
three songs, all of which clock in under seven
minutes, but I’ll do my best. Having been a fan of
Totem and The Devil’s Blood from the getgo, I am
prone to like the music of this Birmingham quartet.
It’s not only the formula; thick fuzzy stoner doom
guitars groove mid-tempo and add a nice soothing
wall of sound type backdrop to gorgeous female
vocals.
These vocals are impeccably executed by
Sophie. Yes, plain Sophie can drop lines like, ‘yeaahhh..I’ll
always wanna be his woman’ and not make you
queasy with her simple ample sweetness. Sophie has this
way about her you see; she can sound like an
innocent yet obsessed teenager that could sell you
rotten apples but I can imagine her going apeshit
and stretching those golden chords, but she
doesn’t. She stays in character and so does her
band.
Aluna (the band has since the release of this
recording changed its name to Alunah) has this neat
and tidy sound about it. There is something totally
clean and orderly about this recording. Fall to
Earth features a very polished production job
where each
instrument breaths nicely but that doesn’t detract
from its strong points. First cut “Spend My Time”
is groovy and mellow, a smooth smokeout of
accessible doom. If this type of rocking was all
that was known about the subgenre, doom would be the
stuff of commercial radio and could be featured in
Disney soundtracks.
Simplicity is key here. The music of Aluna is basic.
The riffage boosts calmed waves of low sound, but that’s because the
whole thing is so slowed down. Some of the guitar
arrangements remind me of the bluesy moods of AC/DC,
albeit with totally fat production and no
revolutions. However, there is somethng that bothers
me about this three-songer. The second track titled
“Son Et Lumnaire” features the broken contrast of a
moody passage and an unnaturally up tempo chorus.
The combination of the two doesn’t work, but hey, I
guess two out of three ain’t bad.
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