(2023) Lights & Motion - Reanimation 2023 [Revisited 10th Anniversary Edition]    



Review:
There are two factors by which the genre of post-rock should be judged by – a litmus test, if you will. One, does it challenge and/or dispel the false notion that at the center of rock music presides a frontman and “proper” song structure? Two, and perhaps most important, does it take listeners out of themselves and into ethereal, ambient and otherworldly realms of which anything and everything is possible when guitars and percussion collide? If this is to be true, then Reanimation, the debut LP from Sweden’s 24-year-old multi-instrumentalist, Christoffer Franzén (aka Lights & Motion), is a near-perfect post-rock album. Bound the single thread that is Franzén’s solitary performances–improvised, layered and manipulated – is a 67-minute epic that ebbs and flows through sweeping reverb, lush textures of orchestrated strings and sonically crushing melodies. Of the post-rock groups recognized by the majority of mainstream indie rock listeners, Lights & Motion most closely resembles Explosions in the Sky in the band’s habitual use of rock’s standard guitar, bass and drums. And while Reanimation is chock-full of the non-traditional percussion often found in the genre, it’s Franzén’s use of this trinity in creating such majestic and euphoric movements that will astound most. No bones about it, Lights & Motion’s Reanimation is quite possibly the greatest debut album in post-rock history. — popmatters





Track List:
01 - Requiem
02 - Home
03 - Aerials
04 - Drift
05 - The March
06 - Victory Rose
07 - Epilogue
08 - Fractured
09 - Texas
10 - Faded Fluorescence
11 - Departure
12 - Reanimation
13 - Dream Away
14 - Gardens
15 - Into the Sky


Media Report:
Genre: post-rock
Country: Gothenburg, Sweden
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)


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