Why Sun - Frugte
WHY SUN DROP HAUNTING ‘FRUGTE’
Copenhagen, Denmark’s sleepy noise trio Why Sun recently dropped their debut EP, entitled Frugte, which means “fruits” in Danish.
Why Sun
Comprised of Julius Emil Brinck, Rasmus Kjærsgaard Velling, and Lasse Skydsgaard Knigge, Why Sun’s moody, supremely laid-back dark sound reflects influences from The Jesus and Mary Chain and Fields of The Nephilim, only more opaque and proximately charged.
Encompassing five-tracks, the EP starts off with “Eastern Love,” opening on soft jangly guitars riding a taut percussive thump, followed by the entry of a dense-colored baritone floating over the harmonics. As brighter guitar accents inject the tune with gleaming highlights, a soaring, rasping synth tone pervades the textured layers.
“Heart Of The Moon” drifts on hazy colors rife with sighing filaments topped by a glistening tone. Dark, viscous vocals imbue the tune with melancholic hues and opaque resonance. The flow of the music resembles migrant clouds sailing across a grey sky, as beams of sunlight leak through in patches.
Like something out of a rift and a revelation, Why Sun deliver sublime music akin to somnolent hymns, projecting slo-mo potent energy.
“Traffic” travels on a shuffling drum intro crowned by shimmering guitars gliding on hints of discordant sonic fibers. Thrumming harmonics, cavernous and spectral, give the tune a drifting prog-rock movement, simultaneously haunting and fragrant with burnished dirge-like coloration.
“Blind” opens on oozing coasting tones, as layered guitar textures glide almost serenely above. Itinerant new wave tinctures roll through the harmonics, offering washes of ozone smelling mists, as the entrenched vocals slide overhead on yawning tones.
“Singapore” opens on emerging synths expanding to a grainy wall-of-sound provided by muddy guitars. As the guitars de-rez, the tune takes on glowing actinic radiance, blooming on searing sonic blushes. The music is vaguely reminiscent of the Deftones, only murkier and more hovering.
Intricately wrought, all five of the tracks on Frugte propel delicious sensory perceptions through listeners’ diaphragms, as tiny hooks of tranquilizing tones envelope the soundscape.
Like something out of a rift and a revelation, Why Sun deliver sublime music akin to somnolent hymns, projecting slo-mo potent energy.
