Pinkish Black-Bottom of the Morning (2015)

Pinkish Black-Bottom of the Morning (2015)

“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.”

Lord Byron

By: Ghost Writer

What an exciting experience is to listen to new music when it is really trying to sound like something new, a moment into Texas' Pinkish Black new record Bottom of the Morning and you realize that something amazing is happened Ng not too far from México, and it is really changing the musical landscape in Texas.

Brown Rainbow the album opener features at the beginning epic keyboard and a propulsive drum beat, the name of the track just couldn't be better as the band's sound here is precisely close to a rainbow bathed in mud, the colorful energy is there, but you know is hidden behind a layer of darkness, the atmosphere goes directly to the Berlin school of sound created by Eno, Bowie and Fripp, restless drumming, resounding vocals and flourishing keyboards are elements that immediately bring to mind those amazing early Eno records, but is on the appliance if epic black metal keyboards where the band really get things right creating a sound feast for unsuspecting ears.

The previous approach quickly changes into something else, as the band mutates into a more dissonant machine featuring a furious distorted bass sound and intense washes of mind altering keyboards on the again wonderfully titled Special Dark, and the approach again works great as the band put us inside a whirlwind of sound rarely heard before, going as far as even taking some elements from the early electronic and cinematic experiments by the mighty Goblin in I'm all Gone, undeniably Teutonic in its nature, recalling some of the darkest exercises of krautrock done in the 70s.

I'm not particular enthusiastic about Burn my Body, the gothic touches might be fine, but the band's intensity here seems a little lost, as the instrumental passages are somehow monotonous, but next song Everything Must Go, with its menacing undertones is quite unique, creating a perfect atmosphere, that along with dark vocals in the line of Jim Morrison, Ian Curtis ir Peter Murphy, and check out the Bauhausesque final for extra dark chills.

The album ends with very high levels of intensity, just check out the crescendo built in the synth heavy title track which starts really slow, emulating a black mass with Jim Morrison preceding and turning into a brutal noise attack enough to raise the hair on your back, leaving you ready for the monuments black attack of The Master is Away, another powerful and slowly painful theme just perfect enough to close this unique record, one strange and wonderful enough to recognize that something astonishing good is just happening a few miles from here, across the border.