noemienours - Unquestioning Unrequited lp

noemienours - Unquestioning Unrequited lp

"Hailing from Stockholm, Sweden, noemienours is a musician and storyteller, inspired by bears, plant-based diets and lo-fi slo-core records. The debut noemienours EP, Songs from the life of bears, arrived back in 2016, and has been followed by three subsequent albums about bears, and one aside, the 2019 album, Kiwis are not bears (but they also need to be protected), recorded in New Zealand. Their latest release, Unquestioning unrequited, arrived back in August, and was picked up for a cassette release in America by cult-label Unread Records.

Listening to Unquestioning unrequited is initially like sliding into a bleak, head-scratchingly odd universe, where distant harmonium is punctuated by random slashes of percussive static, and Noémie’s haunting, largely unintelligible vocal. We’re put in mind of A Silver Mt. Zion if they swapped their vast orchestration for a solo voice from a haunted cabin in the woods. If this is all sounding a little baffling, it is, yet on repeat listens you start to see the patterns, the hidden creativity lurking within begging to be discovered. Ultimately noemienours will remain very much an acquired taste, and we kind of feel that’s the point, this Noémie singular vision of what music is to her: a raw, honest approach that blunts its edges for nobody. Love it or hate it, we can guarantee it won’t sound like anything else you hear all year." - For The Rabbits