Grey Mouse – A Moment of Weakness
Addicted Label / No Name – 2021
Rock, Noir, Blues, Americana, Country, Gothic, Psych
Rated: ***
A Moment of Weakness is a beautifully composed and executed bluesy Americana, country rock album filled with gothic and noir elements. It’s their ninth release (perhaps more?) since Russian Grey Mouse started back around 1990. The vehicle for all that Alexey Chunikhin wishes to convey. Down beat and filled with slow and mysterious sounding instruments that seem to draw out this babbling brook with tiny pencil lines. The cello of course takes centers stage and casts its long and magical shadow across the entire album. Highly atmospheric it touches on certain seventies inspired psychedelic elements but never actually goes that route, it just slowly meanders through the deep thought landscape. Gloomy, dreary and dark the eight tracks evoke images of sand slowly being cast across a table of light turning into the most wonderous of images. But even though you are enjoying this impressionistic, magic realist approach to rock noir, you might feel it’s just a bit too serene, too peaceful for the stories it tries to relate and it could use a waterfall or two or some rapids turning A Moment of Weakness into a twisted twinkling of turmoil…
(Written by JK)
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