aaamusic | On 08, Apr 2011

When Le Corbeau’s Evening Chill album was received with enthusiastic reviews in 2009, there were many listeners that couldn’t decide how to relate to this album and its unreal, distant expression. Since then it has grown into a cult favourite and is referenced as one of the truly original albums of its year. To this day it is Fysisk Format’s best selling release.

Øystein Sandsdalen, in addition to writing the music, has produced the record together with drummer and urban mystic, Tord Løvik. Øystein also produced the cover artwork.

Moth on the Headlight is Le Corbeau’s third album and, shortly summarized, it consists of nine tracks about secret desires, snippets of daydreams, telepathic messages, surprise awakenings of disenchanted hearts and parting ways with sick obsessions. It has a laid-back, cool sound that evokes a feeling of dark comfort – a distant shelter where the world only really exists in the mind.

The album draws its inspiration from the close past, from the point where memory slides into idealised nostalgia; the post-war cars, dark suburban streets, fields of flowers, thunderstorms and snowstorms. Musically speaking, the keywords are gangsterjazz, experimental surf music, classic rock’n’roll and film noir soundtracks. The recordings are, to a large extent, unedited and unpolished. Some of the arrangements are built on extensive sketches and detailed planning, but most of them are, quite basically, the result of whoever was present in the studio at any given time.

On Moth on the Headlight, Le Corbeau has defined its own universe; a dream-like detour that at times happens to touch into reality.

Track Listing:

1. Moth on the Headlight

2. Yvette Rosemont

3. 1962

4. Mizogumo (Head in the Trees)

5. Black Belvedere

6. Another Moment When Time Stands Still

7. Remains

8. Drumming of Heavy Rain

9. 1959