Abandon

Sludge

This post-rock/ambient/slow-core project was started in 2005 by Umair Chaudhry (ex Xmas Lights, currently in Monday Morning Sun). Dense layers of guitars sprawl and sparkle like dying stars over a bare and shifting landscape, worded by the personal lyrics of Umair. The first EP Tunnels featured 4 songs and has been remixed and remastered. To follow is a long-running 4 track EP comprising dense textures of guitars, shrilling ambience, stark rhythm sections and emotive lyrics. Fans of Oxford’s music scene really ought to know Umair Chaudhry’s name – as a member of the now sadly defunct ambient/electronic metal shape-shifters Xmas Lights, and as an all-round musical whizz Umair has been involved with some of the more out-there musical releases in Oxford in the past decade. However, under his Abandon moniker Umair has put out some of his most calm, reflective, slow-core music. ‘Monsters’, the third release from Abandon on Umair’s Blindight Records, feels like a more tightly-controlled and measured extension of 2010′s excellent ‘House of Cards’ EP. Opening track ‘Monsters’ kicks the EP off as it means to go on, sounding like a cross between Jesu, A Perfect Circle, Radiohead and the more ambient side of Deftones. To say it ‘kicks the EP off’ is a little misleading though – the pace is slow, with a beat that seems to be on the back foot to the tricky, cyclical guitar pattern that propels the song along. ‘Land of No Horizon’ takes the same formula and adds more glacial, shimmering layers of guitar to complement Umair’s doubtful, conflicted lyrics. Sonically both tracks also owe a debt to the likes of the New Order, Cocteau Twins and, by extension, Adore-era Smashing Pumpkins. /////// Abandon. Ce projet post-rock/ambient/slow-core a débuté en 2005 à l’iniative d’Umair Chaudhry (ex Xmas Lights, actuellement dans les Monday Morning Sun). Abandon se construit de couches denses de guitares, qui s’étirent et brillent comme des étoiles filantes sur un paysage désolé et prennent vie sur des textes personnels d’Umair. Le premier EP «Tunnels» composé de 4 titres a été remixé et remasterisé. C’est un EP de quatre morceaux longs mélangeant des textures denses de guitares, une ambiance strident, des sections rythmiques dures et des paroles pleines de sens. http://abandon-rock.co.uk http://atypeekmusic.com/Abandon