2023-12-16 22:31:00
With this tormented third album, the Canadian group led by guitarist Evan Uschenko changes dimension.
Four million inhabitants in a region as large as France, Benelux and Switzerland combined, Alberta, in western Canada, is the kingdom of gigantic spaces in which no one will hear you scream. It is in the middle of this immense desert, green in summer and white in winter, in a small town called Three Hills, that Evan Uschenko, soul of Ghost Woman, was born. Alongside a father who played guitar in his spare time, he learned at the age of 11 to handle an instrument whose electrical tensions he now magnifies.
After having long been the traveling companion of another native of the area, the songwriter Michael Rault, Uschenko has, since 2016, been on his own with this project which only really took off last year. But since then he has displayed inexhaustible verve, publishing three albums in eighteen months including this new one, the remarkable Hindsight 50/50. Sonic ode dominated by a haunted and disenchanted voice mixed in the background, guitars that cry angrily and a profusion of dull drum impulses (let’s salute the work of the Belgian drummer Ille Van Dessel, an integral part of the affair). The haunting Along Pt.2 being the best example of this somewhat frightening demonstration, as if inhabited by shadows coming to agitate the nightmares of its author. We understand the nickname better this way. Sometimes frankly apocalyptic (the break of the excellent Yoko) the inspiration of a dazzling darkness of Uschenko still manages to sketch some luminous rainbows in the middle of the shattering sound storms which fall hard. Expression of a distortion as sentimental as musical, these songs resonate like powerful mantras capable of destroying all our inner and outer monsters. If its two previous records offered a pleasant garage-psych rock in the distant wake of Brian Jonestown Massacre or the pioneers 13th Floor Elevators, Hindsight 50/50 takes Ghost Woman into another dimension. That of the albums that mark its time.
Ghost Woman Hindsight 50 /50 (FullTime Hobby)
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