THE DYNAMICS OF VANITY

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experimental Works by SEBASTIAN MELMOTH

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Since forming in 2006 post-punk experimentalists Sebastian Melmoth have been on a thoughtful and adventurous musical journey. In a constant state of aural evolution, the London-based four-piece has a delivered a string of albums and EPs that variously touch on everything from garage-rock, grunge and lo-fi pop, to electro, new wave, dark ambient and music concrete, all the while drawing on a myriad of literary and artistic influences.The bands first release for Artificial Dance digs deep into their admirable and eye-opening catalogue and draws together some of the Amsterdam-based labels favourites from the more electronic end of the bands output. Entitled The Dynamics of Vanity a comment on Western cultures obsession with rehashing the past and the bands own in-built distrust of artistic naval-gazing the set is not a best of retrospective but rather a sort of selection of stylistically interconnected cuts that gives a very specific snapshot of the bands work.Check for example Icarus, a drowsy, hypnotic and sample-laden soundscape that effortlessly joins the dots between post-rock, pitched-down electronica and early morning ambient, or the slowly unfurling throb of thought-provoking opener The Engineering of Consent, a swelling, melancholic post-jazz meditation on propaganda and governmental mind control featuring spoken word samples from William S Burroughs in conversation with Brion Gysin, Timothy Leary, Les Levine and Robert Anton Wilson.The showcased songs are typically hard-to-pin-down, too, with the re-imagined gothic horror break-up cut Prosopagnosia and slow-burn audio addition of Waiting For Godot being joined by the wide-eyed morning dream-pop hallucinations of Seeds (Descent Into Decadence). It all adds up to a collection that expertly showcases one engaging thread of many running through Sebastian Melmoths esoteric body of work.