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Northvia - Sleeping In Airports
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Score: 5/10
Sleeping in Airports, is it? We all know the feeling; it’s boring, yeah that’s a given, but it’s also a necessity. So what they cancelled the flight, we’re gonna get there in the end, that’s the point, right? The escape from wherever it is we’re running away from - that’s the point, yeah? And although there are plenty of records ahead in the “Albums For When You’re, Like, Stuck Places” pecking order, Northvia’s debut full length is perhaps the most apt; the emotion of the stopover is basically covered in its forty-odd minute running time.
We get initial journey excitement, the beautiful chiming of opener “Night On The Lawn” and segueing climax-mammoth “Awake”; we get inevitable delay-related depression, the nondescript and tedious “Air Raid In Threes”; we even get the realization that boredom has set in like gout and that everywhere in the station...Looks. Exactly. The. Same. (“Hours Pt.1”, “Hours Pt.2” and “Terminal” are basically reprises of the opening track - only in a different key.)
Essentially, then, the record is somewhat of a mess - an amalgam of inspired musical patterns and movements that attempt, unsuccessfully, to galvanize otherwise weary passages of trite instrumental melodies. It’s genuinely frustrating. It isn’t the elegance from the outset of the record that alludes to Northvia’s promise, even. Moreover, it’s the premeditated structure, although riddled with sub-par material, that marks the band out as future hopefuls. And creating the cohesion and consistency that will permeate the record is fundamentally half the battle; even established instrumental artists have average albums that are saved because they cohere to a sinuous whole - point in case, Lift Your Skinny Fists… - so at least Northvia seem to know what they want to accomplish.
Let’s just hope their current hiatus is temporary, because their potential is evident for anyone who looks hard enough.
-Alex Bradshaw
Written By: jordanDate Posted: 12/4/2006Number of Views: 1244
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