If you like 'Pink-Floyd' albums from the 70s, you should join this German formation 'The Black Cat's Eyes' which released its first album at the end of March 2023, almost entirely instrumental with a name to sleep outside, 'The Empty Space Between A Seamount And Shock-Headed Julia', and which contains only 5 compositions but which begins with a very long development of 20 minutes which takes us back a few decades in an atmospheric sound labyrinth in which it is good to get lost over multiple guitar solos and different changes of themes, rhythms and intensities. But 'The Black Cat's Eyes', beyond this atmospheric universe, also delivers us other compositions which flirt, here and there with progressive metal: the following title 'Katla' attests to it, which comes to add saturated guitar riffs and provided because the group has three guitarists and, on this title, they get entangled, dissociate here and there to better join then in an imposing wall of sound. No transition for the short title 'Winter Song' (see video here) which follows, sung this time and which is a song rustic à la 'BJH' with an aerial flute adding to this feeling of serenity. We find this style mixing psychedelic and atmospheric with 'In My Dreams The Wind Chases Away The Clouds' (see video above) and the melodic lines show a more haunting and repetitive face on which the electric guitars rub shoulders and actively participate in a succession of tensions and relaxations, and the album ends with 'Lostlostlostlostlostlostlostlost' (no I did not copy/paste 7 times, that's the title) in more direct rock and sung by 'Christian Blaser' which takes us back to the 60s/70s with sounds from artists like 'Ten Years After' or 'The Rolling Stones' while keeping a psychedelic approach.
In summary, the Germans of 'The Black Cat's Eyes' offer us a beautiful journey through time with this first album which mixes psychedelic rock, atmospheric rock and more direct rock and which should appeal to all those who like the period of the precursors of this style at the end of the 60s and in the first half of the 70s... | |
