Gidon Carmel & ALBERTA CROSS and the dark cinematic beauty of "Sticks & Stones" (Official Video)

 

"you feel it in your bones and you can’t take it away..."

Fall into the descending chord shapes of "Sticks & Stones" by Anglo-Swedish indie rockers Alberta Cross from Gidon Carmel’s powerhouse 12-song concept album "Goabi" and you might feel a palpable darkness wrap around you. Against the stair stepping sadness, the melancholy vox that if looked at sideways might feel like transmissions from vintage phones (those tethered to walls) are nonetheless beautiful as hard lines are delivered.

"They'll fuck you up with sticks and stones and you can’t make it all go and you can’t make it go away /  no one can save you..."

The production is brilliantly spartan, like an imaginary John Lennon song veiled in black, as heavy bass tones and slowly strummed guitar cards lay over the piano. Later, percussive threats and other counter positioned droning sounds are delicately interwoven creating anxious tensions. 

Press notey stuff reveal:

[The gorgeously haunting single ‘Sticks and Stones’ was co-written and created by Carmel and Alberta Cross’s Petter Ericson Stakee – the fourth track release from Carmel’s collaboration project, which features artists from Berlin’s thriving dark folk, pop, rock, experimental and electronic scenes.

Carmel’s Goabi album carries the story of an intergalactic being named Goabi, who falls to planet earth and suffers a dramatic fate at the hands of menacing human discoverers.]

What a stunner. 

-Robb Donker Curtius 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7A1HdRZz5g

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Anglo-Swedish indie rockers Alberta Cross are the latest artists to deliver sonic goods on Gidon Carmel’s powerhouse 12-song concept album ‘Goabi’.

The gorgeously haunting single ‘Sticks and Stones’ was co-written and created by Carmel and Alberta Cross’s Petter Ericson Stakee – the fourth track release from Carmel’s collaboration project, which features artists from Berlin’s thriving dark folk, pop, rock, experimental and electronic scenes.

Carmel’s Goabi album carries the story of an intergalactic being named Goabi, who falls to planet earth and suffers a dramatic fate at the hands of menacing human discoverers. 

Carmel envisioned this concept, and encouraging each of the 14 artists to co-write a piece of the album’s journey.

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