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- Wonderful encounter between screaming noise and angelic bliss.
By Rasmus Elm Rasmussen
Last year the exceptionally accomplished, self titled debut album from Norway’s Serena-Maneesh was received with great international praises. Focusing on this record the show started off with the jamming intro of “Candlelighted”, sending thoughts to the raw and reckless garage rock of the sixties.
Though owing great debt to acts like The Velvet Underground and Jesus and Mary Chain, the band soon made it clear, that their move far above any stiff conception of “retro”, as the song set into its first excited rush, melting noisy guitar screams with otherworldly vocals from guitarist/singer Emil Nikolaisen and the groups female backing vocalist.
From here on the music continually sled from noisy guitar riffs and Hendrix inspired stage moves to blissful angelic passages, with unmistakeable reference to shoe gazers like My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive. As the smoke and stage light blurred the bands energetic performance and turned its members into living silhouettes, the borders between the ugly and the beautiful slowly dissolved in blinding ecstatic flashes making any distinction impossible. |
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