Title: If the door is opened, it’s opened from the outside
Format: 12″ vinyl
Label: Kontra Musik
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Genre: Art rock, Kraut, Prog rock & Leftfield electronicaPlaylist:
1. Wing beat frequencies 05:12
2. The Unattended hour
3. Retroactive premonition
4. Red Barns Igniting
5. Istanbul airport 3 PM
6. Morphology
7. The Clinging
8. If the door is opened, it’s opened from the outside
9. Smut
10. Vertical Sovereignty (Sulayman-Too)
In a time fixated with genres, Ved have kept defying definition for over a decade, their hypnotically repetitive music constantly crossing the borderlands of post-punk, art rock, musique concrète and minimalism. So far, vocals have been sacrificed for the sampled voices of anyone from Uri Geller to Yngwie Malmsteen. However, on their fifth full-length album, If the Door …, the group brings a new, literary dimension to their eclectic music by letting two of their four permanent members emerge as lyricists with wildly contrasting vocal styles – one confrontational, the other introspective – on ten songs all springing from collective improvisation. So, what are they singing about? Refrigerators, airports and excrements – or is it capitalism, transcendence and rebirth?
