Falling You
Metanoia
Self-Released
San Francisco based ambient/electronic outfit Falling You have been taking us on amazing journeys for over a quarter of a century. Latest album, Metanoia, is no exception and opening track ‘Throw The Stone’ gives no indication of what our destination might be. Sidestepping easy categorisation, it (as with all Metanoia) has an organic feel, a pliable malleability that seeps into parts of the listener’s psyche that are rarely explored. It’s a cinematic sound that projects David Lynch-like visions onto unsuspecting minds and is coupled with a voice that is an instrument in itself. Often times the sounds the vocalist emits are more important than the words themselves, weaving a strange incantation and giving Metanoia an expressiveness that words alone couldn’t convey. Inhabiting that magical moment betwixt wake and sleep, tracks such as ‘Ariande’ capture the fug of a half-remembered dream, and as such it is quite easy to wander off and get lost in these soundscapes. The epic ‘Alcyone’ and ‘They Give Me Flowers’ have their minutes compressed to mere seconds and seem to exist outside our realm. It gives Metanoia a timeless quality which suggests it could have been released at any point in the last fifty years and is sure to sound fresh fifty years hence.
https://fallingyou.bandcamp.com/album/metanoia
Review by Peter Dennis