ALPENTINES - Blackness

The Cologne Quartet convinces with an innovative and sophisticated mixture from Indie, Postrock & Electronica. Let`s fill our hearts with blackness" - with these words begins Blackness, the second album of the Alpentines. Alpentines musical home is pop music, in all its touching greatness and immanent closeness to the heart. Like two years ago, on the great debut album "Silence Gone", the quartet takes the format of Indie pop songs as vehicles for deeply personal Reflections of our time. Also a theme around which pieces like "Sharks In Pictures" circle. "Gravity / It's not that things are / They simply happen" it says there and throws in Rushing past a 4-minute song, which is played between Poland Jeff Buckley and Andy Shauf oscillate, the really big Questions.