Performer: One Second Bridge
Title: One Second Bridge
Country: UK
Catalog Number: BÜROCD002
Label: Büro
Released: 26 Jun 2006
Style: Indie Rock, Experimental, Ambient, Shoegaze
Rating: 4.7
Votes: 756
1 | Keep On Falling | 5:12 |
2 | Fifth Season | 4:40 |
3 | Sucio Cielo Azul | 3:19 |
4 | N°2Voice – Susanka | 2:29 |
5 | 1000 Lights | 1:55 |
6 | Un Minuto | 1:01 |
7 | Ventana | 2:10 |
8 | Un Minuto | 1:01 |
9 | Everywhere | 3:06 |
10 | One Second Bridge | 2:22 |
11 | Take Me To The Moon | 4:07 |
12 | Brücke | 1:03 |
13 | The Ghost | 3:57 |
14 | Alt. Ending | 3:19 |
Category | Artist | Title (Format) | Label | Category | Country | Year |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
gris02 | One Second Bridge | One Second Bridge (CD, Album, Dig) | VerdiGris, Static Discos | gris02 | Mexico | 2007 |
BÜROCD002 | One Second Bridge | One Second Bridge (CD, Album, Promo, Pla) | Büro | BÜROCD002 | UK | 2006 |
Forming the backbone of their self-titled LP, these bouts of musical impromptu in no way indicate an album full of wandering compositions or half-baked ideas, with the One Second Bridge ethos verging on the melody-drenched output of classic 4AD or even Morr’s Slowdive tributes. Opening with the self-titled ‘One Second Bridge’, Garcia and Bieniaszewski roam into view through a watercolour backdrop of Basinksi-style decaying soundscapes, before the contrast is drawn to the foreground through chiming acoustic guitars and a heat-haze of effects that leave everything tantalisingly out of reach. From here, the next stop is effects layered post-rock on the appropriately titled ‘No.2’, wherein Mogwai’s ‘Somewhere Nice’ is given a bright-eyed rinse-down and comes out the other side with a genuine spring in it’s step that is both infectious and deeply moving. Elsewhere, ‘Um Minuto’ uses some Satie-inspired piano to poignant effect, ‘Keep On Falling’ manages to reference both Badalamenti and Slowdive without becoming overawed, whilst ‘Alt.Ending’ sees you out on a blush of choral rectitude. A gorgeous album that wears it’s grandness with astonishing ease.
Written, recorded, and produced in Bagdad's Oasis, Barcelona, 2003-2004.
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