(Post Rock) RQTN — We were ... We are / 2008, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Musik-Industry wrote:
(Google Translate from native French) I am not a connoisseur of post-rock. Attention. I like the genre but I must admit that under cover of cache on instrumental flights often a boring idea. Bon ok chiante. So many groups are swallowed up in the trick without ever really leave something exciting. Make a 8-minute tape is a difficult art is finally. Fortunately for our ears RQTN easily crosses the course and pay the luxury of topping its slow melodies of a palpable nostalgia and an identity. The time is taken here to install a soothing atmosphere, relaxing and, let's be crazy, transcendent. For a first exercise opus is more than well done. It is poetic enough to sublimate rainy Sunday and sufficiently well done to avoid falling into the ultra repetitive criticism inherent in post-rock. Are good!
Metalorgie wrote:
(Google Translate from native French) Every young project lead by the equally young Mathieu Artu, RQTN easily produced a music movement affiliation to Post Rock. Supported / assisted in his task by Gregory Hoepffner (Time To Burn, fire-Radius System), RQTN Post Rock delivers a sad, lined with dark imagery inspired by the wars of the middle of last century. A very nice first EP by the name of We Were ... Are we released in May 2008 at Swarm Of Nails Records adventure but unfortunately does not last as RQTN ceases to exist a few months later. We were ... we are.
Gentle and contemplative ... Two qualifiers who would like a glove RQTN.
"As with any group of Post Rock," we could replicate. Indeed, it would not be totally false, although far too simplistic. How many groups have broken teeth on the pitfall of boredom? The gap between intention and execution remains immense and meets the sweet name of "talent". Simply.
RQTN it is a bit ... Not flashy for a penny, Mathieu Artu, reaches no velvet and gently deposits in the hollow of the ear 39 minutes of a post rock simple and touching, requiring nothing more than Being listened to. Supplemented by work very visual anchored in the middle of the twentieth century and its World War, the compositions are quickly RQTN delicate, sad and stakeholders after early very common at first glance. As irreparably covered with a veil of rain, the music comes in shades of gray and trimballe a spleen that even the unexpected presence of singing on a beautiful last title (Passing out in front of us), which enjoys the participation of Gregory (Time To Burn, Radius System), can not disrupt. Not that We Were ... We Are either dull or repetitive, no ... but simply that it is difficult to imagine another color in this early EP and yet a strong identity that, if she asked to be well asserted, has the merit to exist. The time seems sometimes suspend its disposal to listen to this first effort, and yet the end comes too soon. The rest will wait with a delicious imaptience.
We Were We Are ... is beautiful. Just beautiful, simple and touching, so much already. A discreet aural caress of a remarkable quality for a project if recent. Pay will therefore be it a listen ... you, you also be charmed.