Bablicon - A Flat Inside a Fog, the Cat That Was a Dog
(Misra)
Bablicon's third full-length, A Flat Inside a Fog, The Cat That Was
a Dog, finds the band focusing their music into
compositions while retaining the stylistic Bablicon-isms. Their
extremes are split further apart, as the delicate "Travelling"
(highlighting Marta Tennae's newfound love of the ivory) and the noisy
"Distant Morfonger" will attest. Despite these different moods, all
of the pieces on this album are infused with elements that
are distinctly Bablicon--a playful spirit, a relentless committment to rhythm, and
the willingness to throw everything upside-down and switch gears when
things start to feel too comfortable.
More textural, quiet moments are present in pieces like "Aether" and
"Musted Fin," but the highlight of the album is
"Saumur/Paris/Teatowels," perhaps the quintessential Bablicon track,
yet hardly predictable. While the tighter, more intact "Pigeon of Doom"
harkens back to the In a
Different City style of composition, "Ape Hall/Atlas' Cousin"
expands the "Bablicon Orchestra" idea that first appeared on The
Orange Tapered Moon.
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