Ahead of the band's latest album, ‘Allow Yourself’, which realises
songwriter and founder
Giancarlo Erra's new vision for the band, Nosound reissue their previous
critically acclaimed
‘Scintilla’ on mid-price CD. After a decade of crafting a very particular
type of widescreen
melancholia and wistful imagery, Nosound’s fifth studio album ‘Scintilla’
introduced a wholly
new musical and visual approach for Giancarlo Erra’s ever-evolving band.
Inspired by personal upheaval and a desire for change, ‘Scintilla’ is an
emotionally complex
and musically direct work presenting a stripped-down set of compositions that
mark a major
departure from Nosound’s trademark symphonic lushness and production
precision. Taking
in influences from Post-Rock, Shoegaze and Alt-Singer-Songwriters, the album
imaginatively
utilises a mostly organic and acoustic sound palette. Musically looser and more
sonically
intimate than the band’s previous releases, Scintilla’s emphasis is
placed firmly on feeling
rather than technique.
Anathema’s Vincent Cavanagh lends his distinctive vocals to two of the
album’s tracks, and
cellist Marianne De Chastelaine returns once more to the Nosound fold (this time
in a more
free-flowing and improvisational capacity). Acclaimed Italian singer Andrea
Chimenti cowrites
and sings on the serene Sogno E Incendio. A cathartic album of emotional
extremes,
‘Scintilla’ marks the brave beginning of the second phase of
Nosound’s fascinating career.
This mid-price CD edition of ‘Scintilla’ features three new bonus tracks,
which connect the dots
between this album and the band's new album ‘Allow Yourself’ due for
release 21st September
2018. ‘Scintilla’ is presented in digipack packaging complete with a 12-page
booklet.
