{"id":7830,"date":"2020-12-11T11:28:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T10:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digipur.it\/?p=7830"},"modified":"2020-12-11T11:28:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T10:28:41","slug":"fleur-caring-abut-something-utterly-useless-is-the-new-album-by-the-electronic-duo-out-on-12-february-2021-listen-to-the-single-the-lowest-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digipur.it\/en\/fleur-caring-abut-something-utterly-useless-is-the-new-album-by-the-electronic-duo-out-on-12-february-2021-listen-to-the-single-the-lowest-tide\/","title":{"rendered":"FLeUR: “Caring Abut Something Utterly Useless” is the new album by the electronic duo, out on 12 February 2021; listen to the single “The Lowest Tide”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cMusic is actually useless, especially when it has no human vocals to cling to; only raw auditory stimulus, and yet we care a lot about it because it helps us speaking the unspeakable<\/em>\u201d. So\u00a0FLeUR<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0introduce\u00a0Caring About Something Utterly Useless<\/strong><\/em>, their second album to be released on\u00a0February 12, 2021<\/strong>\u00a0via\u00a0Bosco Rec<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The music of the Italian-based experimental duo, formed by Enrico Dutto and Francesco Lurgo, is all about the dialogue between\u00a0electronic programming<\/strong>\u00a0and the warmness of human hands playing\u00a0guitars and keyboards<\/strong>, one merging with each other until the point where they became symbiotic and the boundaries blur, and so digital sounds mutate into breaths and walls of guitar chords become synthetic roars.<\/p>\n

Some written for theatrical pieces (Narcissus\u2019 Scream\u00a0<\/em>is inspired by playwright Sarah Kane), some for live performances in art galleries and others conceived in the forced reflections of the 2020 lockdown, the seven tracks of this record became a coherent journey thanks to the production of\u00a0Emilio Pozzolini<\/strong>, from the never forgotten dreamy electronica heroes\u00a0port-royal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

For the\u00a0opening track and\u00a0first single\u00a0The Lowest Tide (For Matteo G.)<\/strong><\/em>, available from 11 December 2020, Pozzolini was joined\u00a0behind the studio desk\u00a0by dark ambient enfant-prodige\u00a0Domiziano Maselli<\/strong>.\u00a0The Lowest Tide<\/em>\u00a0is a free-form abstraction that starts from maximum expansion and reaches maximum saturation, through continuous micro-variations.<\/p>\n

Premiered on SonOfMarketing<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0with a deep interview, the\u00a0videoclip<\/strong>\u00a0was made by Lurgo himself, also film-maker: the images move mysteriously from an abandoned city to wild nature, hand in hand with the growing dynamics. There you can see an end or a new beginning.<\/p>\n

Caring About Something Utterly Useless<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>is a sonic magma from which the melodies emerge like rocks from the waves, which rise and fall in circular motion, from the opening single\u00a0The Lowest Tide<\/em>\u00a0to the finalThe Highest Tide<\/em>, the only track with vocals, which ends with the same theme with which\u00a0The Lowest Tide<\/em>\u00a0begins. From minimalism we drift towards an organic sound, while the titles of the tracks are transformed into a further means of expression. There are\u00a0For Pierre Brassau<\/em>, to recall the alter ego of the chimpanzee passed off as a French artist in the Sixties, and\u00a0My Battery Is Low And It\u2019s Getting Dark<\/em>, in reference to the last message of the NASA rover on Mars before going off.<\/p>\n

Caring About Something Utterly Useless<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is dedicated to the memory of the Italian singer-songwriter Gwydion Destefanis, aka Nebbiolo, and arrives four years after FLeUR’s debut album\u00a0The Space Between<\/em>. In addition to the attitudinal belonging to a certain scene in their city of Turin, the influences of the duo range from musicians such as Tim Hecker and Ben Frost to the Warp school of Autechre and Boards Of Canada, up to the post-rock of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mogwai and Bark Psychosis, to the dark tones of Coil and Soap & Skin.<\/p>\n

A journey where the road bends around maximalist\u00a0ambient drones<\/strong>, shattered\u00a0IDM beats<\/strong>\u00a0and lullabies from guitar and piano, all of this here to speak the unspeakable. Take care of it.<\/p>\n