Telefon Tel Aviv – Immolate Yourself | Album Review

Sunday, January 18th, 2009 | Album Review

telefon-tel-avivTelefon Tel Aviv a US duo from Chicago, Illinois deliver their third album on the eclectic but very electronic BPitch Control. Coming off the back of supporting Matthew Dear on his US tour, their new album Immolate Yourself looks to redefine Electro/Synth Pop for 2009.

Immolate Yourself is an album of diverse and intelligent textured synth layers which soar and swerve through many emotional states. Opening track The Birds is a bright and breathy track where intertwining synths glide through epic skylines to create a beautiful and warm opener.

The diversity of Telefon Tel Aviv’s range is instantly proven with the following track Your Mouth showing the darker, melancholic side. They use sinister synths layered with melancholic strings through a long chord progression to create a slow and atmospheric movement reminiscent of the darker side of Depeche Mode.

After the diverse start, the album meanders through so many textures and emotions before arriving at Stay Away From Being Maybe, another breathy epic track. Its mechanical breakbeat backs heavily phased vocals before the track is hit by intermittent waves of epic bright synths. The result is a beautiful, celestial track.

From the midway highs of Stay Away From Being Maybe, the album meanders back to the dark side. Your Every Idol plays like an extended interlude. Its tumbling percussion and short but intensifying chord progression brilliantly sets up the final release into ‘You Are The Worst Thing In The World’, another divine track. They flawlessly nail the vocals with the simple synth hook producing a dreamy send off whilst summarising the entire album.

Telefon Tel Aviv have created a beautiful body of work to see electro/synth pop continue on through 2009. Whilst they lack a lead voice like Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode, they certainly fill the void with the texture and depth of their sound. A great album which needs to be listened to.

Buy Telefon Tel Aviv – Immolate Yourself on CD

Tracklist:
01. The Birds
02. Your Mouth
03. M
04. Helen of Troy
05. Mostly Translucent
06. Stay Away from Being Maybe
07. I Made a Tree on the Wold
08. Your Every Idol
09. You Are the Worst Thing in the World
10. Immolate Yourself

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