Moodring: Scared of Ferret (recent reviews)

There is a very thin line between noise and really awesome fun times in today’s musical climate.  More and more lo-fi indie bands are being called the next big thing, which makes it hard to actually make your way through all the crap to get to the good stuff.  Moodring lean a bit more to the noise side – there isn’t much really awesome fun time throughout the eleven tracks that make of Scared of Ferret.  It is unfortunate too; tracks like “#9″ and closer “Horse” are very strong, but are overshadowed by the lack of punch from the rest of the group.  Watch out though – this band may get big one day.  They have the potential.
~ Hearwax

An offshoot of the weird-jazz ensemble Rollerball, Moodring has that band’s freedom with sound and their ability to scare the beejezus out of you. What they do with sounds is fascinating and scary. Listen to “Shaker Tab”, which has a flurry of percussion and squirming equipment noises but also, surprisingly, a catchy tune. Or “Bulbul Tarang”, a five-minute meditation over guitar and drum that amplifies the noise as it moves, like a prayer turned into torture. Then horns come in and it breaks free and clear, sort of, though I still hear doom hanging in the air at the end.
~ Dave Heaton, Erasing Clouds

Moodring je psychedelický odštěpek impro/jazz/rockového kvintetu Rollerball. Jejich první dlouhohrající album Scared Of Ferret nezaostává ve stylové rozkročenosti vůbec nic dlužno pověsti všežravé základní kapely. Ba naopak. Během necelých 40 minut kapela projede jak na horské dráze mrazivými bažinami kytarového ambientu, nezapomene vymáchat posluchače v protorockovém primitivismu starých dobrých Suicide či This Heat, krautrových Can či americké mathrockové škole Slint nebo Liars.
~ Pavel Zelinka, Radio Wave

Gli statunitensi Moodring sono formati da due membri dei Rollerball (la vocalist e tastierista Mae Starr e il bassista Monte Trent Allen), a cui si aggiungono il batterista Jesse Stevens e il clarinettista Michael Braun Hamilton.
“Scared Of Ferret” è un album peculiare, un ibrido tra dark ambient, psichedelia, free jazz e dub, con innesti etnico – orientaleggianti dai toni suggestivi ed evanescenti, in cui molti brani sono semplicemente degli abbozzi, altri, invece, sono lunghi ed evocativi – come, ad esempio, l’eterea “Colin Wilson”- in ogni caso di grande atmosfera, anche se di difficile ascolto e sicuramente (specie gli ultimi sei brani dell’album) non sempre “digeribili” da un ascoltatore che non sia fortemente interessato al genere.
Spesso, le sonorità della band si riducono ad uno scheletrico susseguirsi di suoni e rumori, teso alla più estrema e ostica sperimentazione sonora.
Che dietro l’album vi sia una ricerca e un’audacia artistica è innegabile, ma, obbiettivamente, non tutti i brani sono pienamente fruibili, e solo la presenza di alcuni momenti piacevoli rende l’album sufficientemente interessante.
~ Alone Music

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