Daughter With Chesty Cough

We vs. Death [A Black House, A Coloured Home]

We Vs. Death.
"The name is 10 years old, and became a sound more than a name with a meaning. It was intented to as ironic slogan." So much does the band itself to its mysterious name, and now presents her second album.

" now you are the sun! "
(the sun)

falls in the present days of the advertised everywhere Music Downloads publication always be particularly visible, if, in its variant as " physical product " - a term currently in many press releases full of proud mention is - in addition to the support itself in its proven, transparent Platsikhülle, so much more than a simple Cover. " We just think that a jewel case today, just not enough ," said Wouter me Kors, guitarist of the Dutch We Vs. Death . "Why should anyone his music in an ugly shell pack only because that's the standard? We love and we love drives the associated type (work) and therefore We like to put effort into our albums. "The trouble with her debut album, We Too Are Concerned / We Are Too Concerned " was next to the Faltcover from a poster and a video DVD is, at "A Black House, A Coloured Home" as a series of postcards and a 24-page catalog in DinA 5 format, with drawings, photographs and images from various space-out installations. "D he is most of our artwork by our old friend Roel Dalhuisen. He knows exactly what we are trying to implement, so we give him a carte blanche most. "

The current artwork is very different from its predecessor. What there dark and distant place outside in an unknown place seems here in colorful sketches and communicating with the viewer installations to rise, the Darußen was looking for a specific room, without being actually locate it somehow. Dalhuisen take photographs and installations to abstract, urban-looking drawings. "We asked Sander Polderman to design the artwork and he created this beautiful, abstract, colorful stuff. We asked ourselves 'A Black House, A Home Coloured' different than before the last album, expressive, raw, less certain and unambiguous, thinking that he would meet this idea. It was a collaboration in which all involved a lot and thoroughly have discussed. "

The urban moment, the band already out on debut in the endless in the accompanying video tours of cities did not come from nowhere. As the meandering soundtrack contribute to the nocturnal travels, in which the headlamps like tracks on a faded map, published the music of the quintet. That has not changed significantly on the new album, but much seems new and unfamiliar. After

in 2006 completely lost in the post-rock's silence, make We Vs. Death suddenly your mouth. Of course, the thieves pieces unfold in an unpredictable still slow, still performs the redeeming Sound of the trumpet forth between some nervous, some very sober guitars. In addition to the " noisy and more quiet songs " one is probably still best of " some distinct singing" surprised the band explains itself, but so surprisingly the song for the listener, any more subversive and programmatic appears the fact for the band itself " We Vs. Death was never a no-compromise approach. When we founded it, the band now and then singing, then he suddenly disappeared. Right now it appears to us as something that we would like to do and he allows us our songs - to give a new shade , "said Wouter - at least from our perspective. Both the language of the texts and the titles should give the songs a space in which to become concrete. "It draws a Cricle around the music. "That space, which results from the entire work, the sound, the artwork, the packaging. However

required language from a very special attention from the listener. It is not easy lines of text only as a musical shading to consider additional sound patterns to decode without they want them to wring a meaning. Unless you are serving a living language and not to sounds in the style of Hopelandish recourse. Collection Of Stones appears in this respect as the lament of a modernity that is aware of its problems and its impact, and remains still obscure enough to not agitate to be understood as actual criticism. " We are not interested to make clear statements in any way. Policy is less in our texts, but rather in the way we work clearly: we book all our shows ourselves, we create our own shots ever, we are careful in the way of our work as we see fit. "

can Nevertheless, this very melancholic moment lamenting in song, especially when the whole band into this match with not be brushed aside, and perhaps this is also the weakest aspect of an otherwise successful album: If the song is to enrich only as a facet of many of the sound, then when is he ever in his vollentfaltetem pathos occurs too dominant, and binds the otherwise complex moods and qualities of the pieces themselves. "If they had better get kept his mouth " at this point of course, a phrase that lends itself, but of course it is not like that.
photo: zankyo records

We Vs.
death "a black house, a colored home "
beep! beep! 2009 cd
We Vs. death
roel
Dalhuisen Sander Polderman