POLMO POLPO

POLMO POLPO
LIKE HEART SWELLING (2003)
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The album takes influence from all over the place. There's a lot of trance, classical, some Motown, and some classic rock, just to name a few. Although I'm not big on a lot of the styles used here, I don't think it was enough to be incriminating. If anything it enhanced the album with a decent display of versatility. In "Requiem For A Fox" some guitar work reminiscent to Godspeed's F#A# slowly takes the lead, lingers in the background for a while, then takes the lead again in the form of a slow solo in the style of Eric Clapton, without the annoying soul-less blues that Clapton mass produced for the bovine riff rock fans.
Abstract ambient music isn't most people's bag, understandably. I'm a sucker for weird, emotion evoking stuff like this and, as such, Like Hearts Swelling is a must have.

1. Romeo Heart 7:55
2. Requiem for a Fox 11:04
3. Farewell 5:04
4. Sky Histoire 13:10
5. Like Hearts Swelling 9:40