Carpet – Collision

 

 

Carpet – Collision
Kapitän Platte – 2024
Rock, Prog
Rated: *****

The new, fifth full-sized album by German prog rockers Carpet, is exactly that. Prog, immaculate and nearing perfection. Collision is its name and delivers a big forty five minutes of colossal prog rock. There are always influences from other genres whatever album you are listening to and whenever it comes to progressive rock, there are even more. Some of which are of course common for the prog rock genre. So, yes, there are a few definite sallies into the realms of psychedelic rock, jazzier takes on their compositions and even something rubbing up against stonerrock. And there are more, more minute or minimal or miniscule tidbits that will remind of other genres, but that’s what progressive rock should be all about. And the way Carpet delivers their new prog rock adventure is a testament to the brilliance of the genre and of all six of the bandmembers. Opening the Collision album is the eight minutes long The Moonlight Rush. A gradual opening section, soon guided by a wonderful trumpet, towards a riff strong proto tinted sonic river, carrying the blessed vocals through verses and refrains, underneath bridges before finally coming to a cascade that instead of speeding things up, slows things down and there among the jazz pebbles, we once again here that trumpet coming back to guide us into the light. Back to a dream you once had, and that segment might be exactly what you need to calm the internal friction you might have been experiencing and there will be a feeling of fortuity energizing your entire being. You are here and lucky enough to hear Collision and completely able to enjoy it. And that contact feels so precious, you should do your utmost to preserve it. First contact is always cherished, but even more so when it is this wholesome and amazing. And fortunately, the Carpet six continue with another brilliant track called Dead Fingers. Starting off rockier, jagged and edgy before those edges are smoothed over and offered up to shine with forlorn and repeated vocal lines misting across the composition. Turning the track slowly into a foggy atmosphere, obscuring the moonlight from earlier and heralding the arrival of ghostly figures or memories. Ghosts is the third track, which slowly dispels the fog again and whisps it away once those guitar are allowed to squeal through the mid-section and howl near the end. With the following P Is For Parrot is you arrive at the middle of the Collision record, where wonderful keywork seems to pin down the psych and the pastoral vibes, and the guitar becomes this fragile crystalline boundary marker, offering flashbacks to something eighties and flash forwards to when the world finally falls down. Three more tracks will follow that will move you with its multitude of layers, the inherent floatability and the way that makes it all merge together and feel so natural and nourishing. Dream state textures and lush instrumentation come together in perfect shape and form on Carpet’s new record Collision. And it will leave one hell of an impact…  

(Written by JK)

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