All my dreams came true, by Wreche

All my dreams came true

by Wreche

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Black Metal & Brews Some albums are the sum of their parts, sure, but this one is so much more than just the instruments used to create it. Unique arrangements are only a fragment of the appeal. These are truly cosmic sounds. Favorite track: Severed.

SouthernWolf Wreche has created a masterpiece, at times violently intense, at others astoundingly beautiful, but the journey as a whole is exhilarating and deeply moving. It creates its own definition of what black metal could and should be, and perfects this vision. It needs to be experienced. Few records have ever hit me this hard.

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1.	Mysterium 08:07	buy track
2.	Scherzo 08:11	buy track
3.	In Agony, to the Earth - and Heaven 08:39	buy track
4.	Severed 13:36	buy track
5.	The Darkling Thrush 09:03	buy track
6.	Les Fleurs mov. 1 02:46	buy track
7.	Les Fleurs mov. 2 10:09	buy track

about

We're living in the future, we're living alone. We always were. At our best happy worms in the dirt of existence, crawling.

But some worms reach for the stars. Some even reach high enough to drag a little of the stars down to share with the rest of us. Often at the cost of great labor and psychological sacrifice to themselves. But let us be grateful. Let us celebrate. Because Wreche has presented us with one such gift.

Pianist John Steven Morgan spends his days abusing an upright on the streets of San Francisco and his nights pouring over pencilmarked scores in a smoke filled apartment in Oakland. His brilliant duo Wreche gave the world their pitch-black self-titled album in 2017 and we were really please to get to co-release the printed score with Morgan's own Handsmade Collective (still got a couple for sale, by the way).

That record was unlike anything heard in the black metal community up to that point. Machine tight but fluid drums underpinned frenzied piano riffs that drew as much from USBM acts like Weakling or Wolves in the Throneroom as it did from the impressionistic apocalypses of Alexander Scriabin. It was black metal, undoubtedly, but it possessed the syzygy of an expert free jazz duo and the lexicon of the Romantic greats.

Isolated during California's repeated lock-downs, Morgan retreated to his black and whites and hammered out the follow-up record almost entirely on his own, a feat that makes it all the more impressive.

That Wreche possess an utterly unique sound is beyond dispute. With the release of "All my dreams came true" what is now also a certainty is that they have few peers when it comes to ambition either.

The newest work from Liturgy is a touchpoint, and so is the output of orchestral minded post-rockers like Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Heck you'll hear echoes of the past 15 years of Ulver throughout. But "All my dreams came true" is its own, inimitable beast.

With a single exception, Morgan plays all the percussion on this record. He proves himself more than up for the challenge though, blazing through the tunes with a precision lacking in many a full-time drummer's licks. On top of this raging heartbeat Morgan lays his signature pianoforte links, and they never fail to disappoint.

What's changed the most this time is the way Wreche have chosen to often push Morgan's hypermodernist synthesizer work to the foreground. Lurking like a brume beneath Barret Baumgart's drumming last time, they're swarmed out like angry bees to invade the audio spectrum.

Not just another color, or another laying of "trippy texture" to flush the songs out, Morgan's synth playing would fit in well with a ton of the post-club music coming out of the dance music scene currently, stripped of their context. In the context of Wreche, however, they are a fully integrated new voice, and a frequent tortured lead competing alongside Morgan's wretched vocals for our attention.

This new "member" has also allowed the songs to open up and expand, krautrock and all manner of post-metal inventions flowing in to fill the gaps created in the band's previously monolithic heaviness.

There's never been a band or a record like this before. That's the long and the short of it. Wreche are over here, kindly changing the game for us forever. Will we be brave enough to pick up the ball and play along?

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released May 14, 2021

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A Bay Area based label dedicated primarily to the release of unique and original black metal with the occasional experimental or ambient release thrown in for good measure.

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