Album Review: Trementina Add Dreaminess To Shoegaze In “810”
When it comes to neo-psychedelic dream-pop/rock, Chile’s Trementina serves sweet experimentation. To listen to their newest album, 810, is like deciding to live in Jupiter for a month. Using twinkled chords that shine throughout the album like light could, literally, reflect off of them, each track flows into the other to, ultimately, land you in a superbly, serene mood that seems too rich to be from earth.
First, I must marvel at the mystical fluidity of 810. The whole album feels more like a 40 minute opus then 9 separate tracks. The way each song transitions into each other reminds me of classical music and how Mozart or Chopin could make one song feel like 20. Although 810 is literally divided into 9 songs, each one is synchronized in giving listeners visions of purple, pink, and light blue hues swirling before them, which is perfect for shoegaze music. After all, the genre is known for its introverted but plush nature, and Tremetina capture the beauty of shyness. Their instrumentals are grand in how slowly paces and twirling they are in arrangements like a whirling dervish. You cannot stop listening to how each song seemingly spins in stillness such as, “Please, Let’s Go Away” and “The Sound & The South”. Now this is not to say that 810’s do not move you or seem to have an up-beat such as, songs “Oh Child” and “Falling Over Myself” can undeniably be categorized as “space rock”. Again, you get an interplanetary “feel” as if your mind is seeking real estate in Jupiter and Saturn. I chose these planets, in particular, because, like them, there is something soft and regal in the music magic/psychedelia that Trementina musters, which I believe stems from the vocals of lead singer Vanessa Cea.
Cea has a voice that could easily sing every child a lullaby; it is the universal definition of gentle and soothing. In this sense, she is the perfect vocalist for Cristobal Ortiz’s modulated guitar and the thick bass of Lucas Martinic. While they create a twisted, supernatural sound that wistfully enters listeners’ dreams, she guides with vocals and lyrics that are smoked in subtle passion and hypnosis. “Out Of The Lights” and “All I Wanted” are two stand-out tracks that exemplify Cea’s ability to both blend and blossom through Trementina’s seemingly opium-laced rhythms. Honestly, 810 could be a record for fantastical meditation or anyone who wants to feel like they are laying tranquilly in a galaxy of sound. to buy Trementina’s 810 on March 24 Click Here.
