A pretty slow release week this week, heading into a huge one next week. So big in fact that we actually decided to pull our Record of the Week this week from next week so we can showcase as much of it as possible. We also couldn’t be more excited to share this album with you.
If you know me at all, and this is a rather large giveaway as to who “me” is, you know that I am absolutely obsessed with everything that Type Records releases. I’ve collected every release they’ve put out, missing just a single 7″ out of 70+ releases. Having said that, I can confidently say, Rene Hell’s Porcelain Opera, is one of the best things Type has put out all year.
Now that’s a hefty statement because the Alps recent album, an honorable mention in a Record of the Week last week, was such a killer slab of wax, we haven’t been able to stop listening to it around here. What Rene Hell does, doesn’t stray far from the kosmiche sounds of the Alps either. The exception falls, where the Alps had an organic sound to it all, mixing in acoustic instruments, Rene Hell is an all out analog synth experience.
Rene Hell’s sound could best be described as a church choir filled with nothing but analog synths. Gospel music for the psychedelic soul. In that same token, I’m not sure there is anything psychedelic going on whatsoever with this. It’s one of the most choral and spiritual sounding albums I’ve heard in awhile, all as if it’s being filtered through the fingers of other recent analog visionaries such as Emeralds or Oneohtrix Point Never.
In the end, it’s a sound that needs to be heard. An absolutely wonderful album and one that will leave you wanting to put it on repeat.
Listen to “IV 18-54″ from Rene Hell’s Porcelain Opera
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Tags: Record of the Week, rene hell
