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FRAGILE EP The Last Clouds

by The Last Clouds

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    If one sequence of songs were to arrive right now, pretty much capturing how things are, the way we feel, it would be this one.

    Fragile is a 5 song EP served up to us by Matthew Schott and Al Quarterman’s The Last Clouds.

    This is electronic but not synthetic, a real human experience built with machines, expressed by an anxious, darkly melodic soul, singing his heart out.

    The voice of our communal isolation experience.

    Matthew’s world weary words inhabit a paranoid audio landscape of icy synths and sweeping arpeggios.

    We, the listeners, are taken on a journey to a new synth-pop place.

    The Last Clouds’ synthesist Al creates drama and emotional dynamics matched by his purposeful beats and bass lines. This is pop, the dark, electronic stuff; you know the place where Bowie should have gone.

    Should we forget, this an EP.

    Old money for a splurge of ideas, a collection, a theme that has been been properly explored.

    From the 5 songs we have 5 environments, linked sonically, each telling its own individual story.

    ”Ghostlands” opens with a spidery arpeggio which breaks open into story telling reminiscent of Peter Gabriel at his most fearful. ”It’s Not The End Of All Time” achieves a swirling psychedelic electronica, showcasing treated pianos and infected strings giving way to “Josephine” and her twinkling fades and warm chords.

    “The River” leads us through a suitably watery piano led ballad into “Contact”, a powerful synth driven epic.

    There is little point in attempting to avoid superlatives here; The Last Clouds’ Fragile EP has the gravitas of later Depeche Mode complete with soaring A-ha grade melodies.

    Daring to be honest, challenging and sincere.

    Fragile sounds like a warning, a reminder that what we have as humans is always worth fighting for, something to hold on to.

    Perfect timing?

    Serendipity?

    In these uncertain times the message is true.

    WRITTEN BY ANDY PEGGS FOR SCHOTTS LIST MUSIC BLOG.

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released December 5, 2020

All songs written by Al Quarterman and Matt Schott

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