Perch Exclusive! – Stream Azeda Booth’s EP “Mysterious Body”
Morgan, of Azeda Booth, sent me their new EP yesterday and I can’t get enough of it. He gave me permission to stream the entire EP for you guys so that’s what I’m going to do. I doubt it’s an exclusive at all, but I got your attention didn’t I?
Azeda Booth’s very short, but very good new EP at times sounds like Boards of Canada combined with the Books, while other times sounding like Bjork mixed with Sigur Rós. The EP opener “Aislinn Bos, Y” fits the first combination of instrumental bands and begins the 13 minute journey with a peaceful soundscape of drones, glitches, and subtle melody. What “Mysterious Journey” is described as at their site is basically two conventional songs sandwiched in between instrumental ambiance. While this is very true, I almost prefer the instrumental songs more than the conventional songs with singing. The singing definitely is interesting though, with Jordan Hossack’s falsetto singing being reminescent of Jonsi from Sigur Rós. The thing that got me about this EP besides how unique it sounded was how easy it was to listen to. Everyone should know by now I’m all about instrumental music I can listen to in the background while doing homework or something, but is still good enough to listen to on it’s own without having to be busy at the time, and Mysterious Body proved to be just that tonight. I spent two hours creating sheet music for a project tonight and had this EP on repeat the whole time. Not once did I think, that’s the sixth time through, I’ve got to listen to something else. By the time I finished the dumb project and walked home, I’d gone through the EP eight or nine times. It’s almost ridiculous to think of me, the kid with indie music A.D.D., having one thing on my iPod for so long, but it’s easy to get lost in Mysterious Body’s five song soundscape, and that’s just what I did.
I know I’m notorious for writing rave reviews about nearly 90% of the music I post on this blog, just look at my reviews I wrote for my school paper (in the new “Published Reviews” section which exists now! Most the school thinks I just love everything I listen to) but give Azeda Booth’s EP a listen and tell me it doesn’t creep under your skin and stay in your head. My favorites have to be the calm, guitar led “Landscape (with Grass)”, and the wonderfully glitchy “Ben”, which ranks up there with Boards of Canada’s minimalist masterpieces. This EP represents Azeda Booth when they were a two man band, and is two years in the making. Now that they’re six members strong, a full-length should surface sometime in the near future. While it sounds like the minimalistic approach is being somewhat left behind with the full band’s new music, I’m still excited to hear what they come up with. For now, I’ll just keep listening to Mysterious Body on repeat and hope somehow Sigur Rós hears them and asks if they want to open for them. That’d be fitting wouldn’t it? Now go stream that EP and download the two “conventional” songs from the EP.
Mysterious Body EP Streamed
