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It is said that first albums take 20 years to write. What is meant by
this is that a band or artist’s first album is
the culmination of their lifetimes’ worth of experience up to that point.
In the case of SONORA’s debut, Days
of Conquer, that is more than true. Singer-guitarist Sabine Litschka,
guitarist Oliver Vendl and drummer
Florian Strobl had been working together since 2001, and yet this was
this Austrian band’s first full-length release.
Signed to a label early in their formation,
that deal produced only one single. Litschka, Vendl and Strobl
weren’t happy with it. The band negotiated a release from their contract
to pursue the independent route
- a bold move. They built their own studio, started their own label and
never looked back.
Days of Conquer
is full of surprises. The opening track, “Empty Room” sports
alternating rhythms and a driving
funky groove- and if you think, “okay, this is a funk/jam band,” you’d be
wrong. When you reach track two,
the slow burn “Headless Fake”, you could be tempted to categorize again,
but not so fast! From the driving
“Naked Upside Down” to the sultry “Someday” to the haunting final track
“Stumble and Fall” finely-crafted songs
and solid musicianship interweave genre-busting elements that place
SONORA somewhere between indie and indescribable.
Litschka’s whisper-to-a-scream vocals evoke a female Eddie Vedder .
Vendl’s soaring and emotive guitar work embraces
the aesthetic where tone is king. Track by track, a cohesiveness emerges
to the varied sonic landscape. Close inspection
of the lyrics reveals Litschka’s strong poetic sensibility and her love
for the nuances and textures of the English language.
Days of Conquer
is a journey. SONORA invites you to come along for the ride.
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