Esoteric Recordings
Review by Jason Barnard
With an arresting front cover Hi Fiction Science’s second album ‘Curious Yellow’ instantly intrigues but nonetheless its contents take much longer to digest revealing hidden pleasures.
Like my favourite artists, Hi Fiction Science, draw from elements from the past (krautrock, psych, electronic) but create new, vibrant sounds to move the music on. We should have more acts like this today, neither retro nor middle of the road, crafting excellent cutting edge rock music.
Rewarding repeated spins, the vocals of Maria Charles are frequently mixed as part of the group’s guitar electronica washing around the listener with first track, ‘Digitalis’, a case in point. If you’re interested also try seventh track (and over seven minutes long), the exquisitely sung and played ‘1000 Years’.
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However I don’t want to give a track by track run down as Curious Yellow artistically works best as a whole; a whole that rewards patience and thought to feed the creative spirit.
