Tommaso Salvini has reviewed Lac Observation “Gravity Whispers” on the pages of his blog: Ortica Xoundz.
Here’s an English translation of it:
“Walls of sound and shortcrust pastry, ready to rise as a threat as well as to disintegrate fragilely following a breath of wind, a sigh from the betrayed lover, the imperceptible noise of a life breaking.
There’s no need to play when the sensations already play by themselves, in harmonically perfect songs, full of ideas, impulses and inventions
The only difficulty, while the sounds slide light and confused from the stereo to the ears, is to understand from which organ of the body all this healthy inspiration comes?
From the brain?
From cardio?
From the Liver?
There must necessarily be a receptor that assimilates, reworks and then sorts. It absolutely has to.
Because these pieces come out spontaneous, genuine and fresh, seeming more like the fruit of something physical, elementally human, than reasoned, organized with criteria and reason.
There are the martial, austere percussions of Death In June, the open-hearted Indie Rock of Neutral Milk Hotel, the tender and audacious psychedelia of Syd Barrett as a soloist: it is precisely the friction and coexistence of these three elements that generates Lac Observation and, at the same time, make it seem so fragile and compact at the same time.
A real album must immerse itself in your life, understand it and then put it on the streets without filters or rehashing: everything appears that way because that’s how it actually is. The reason why Gravity Whispers works is precisely this: it is not ashamed of its flaws, it does not brag about its merits and it speaks multiple languages at the same time.
It introduces ambient noises between ethereal and melancholy Lo-Fi sounds, an atmosphere that speaks of our intimate and therefore also of our disappointments, of our interrupted expectations; there is not a song in this collection that is not intense, there is not a second sound that does not lead to constructive and intelligently self-critical introspection.
It rarely happens that we can say this with full knowledge but, even from a first listen, the intellect is so stimulated, that one would say that Gravity Whispers, released in the last part of 2024, is one of the best things released in the past year.
Also sprach Tommaso
Please trust me, it’s for your own good.”
For the Italian version visit his blog here.
Listen to “Gravity Whispers” by Lac Observation here .
