HWYUIOD - The Window

 Big one! Les Disques Omnison goes post-rock, with a new record that recalls early Kranky (Labradford, Stars of the Lid,…), Flying Nun Records, and turn-of-the-century slowcore. The trio - composed of Orion, Shelter and Thomas Riguelle - offers a follow-up to Shelter & Orion’s 2024 kraut odyssey “Here’s Where You Understand It’s Only Dreaming” - adding fuzz to their guitars and pitching down their groove, under the influence of Duster and Codeine.

After a 5 min-long pedal-heavy mist of guitars and unidentified sound sources, HWYUIOD's music gets on the track of a slow rolling drum beat, in which one can find echoes of  Tanz Mein Herz's endless live jams. "High Noon" is one of these songs that abolish duration (or at least wildly dilate time), beginings and ends, like those trains that crosses the US, on which people hop on and off in New Hollywood cinema, Boxcar Bertha and Days of Heaven. Rather than golden fields and Midwest ennui,  "Phantom Cab" - the other drum-driven track on the record - evokes old Europe's motorik beats, the krautrock drums of Jaki Liebzeit: damp cobblestone streets, sullen faces and a sense of immediate danger.

Oscillating between these two poles, the music the trio puts on this record is deterritorialized, free-floating in a world of blurred references and an ocean of highly processed sounds. Just like the aforementioned releases from the early days of Kranky, The Window, is not exactly ambient, nor rock or experimental electronic music, it pervades a grey zone, somewhere vaguely at the intersection of these genres. Grey music nonetheless vibrant and eerily seductive. Another highly recommended releases from the Parisian underground! (M/M - wholesale: shops, contact us)