Andreas Brandal

Attentive readers will know that late last year in my other guise as a musician I shared a split album with Andreas Brandal on Lithuanian label AghartA Tapes which, due to my involvement, was ineligible for inclusion in these here pages – I can’t really review myself after all. So, it’s nice to finally be able to lay before you the very fine music that this gentleman makes.
Reverse the Night, as the title and the solid black of the sleeve implies, is a melancholic and introspective listen that plumbs the depths of the dustiest, dankest catacombs of Andreas’ mind. Side one is the more overtly bleak of the two, although the flip isn’t exactly a summer’s day skip through a wheat field. It does however have a distinctly psychedelic edge to its austere ambience. Although it must be noted that this is the ambience of a distinctly lonely and forlorn form of psychedelia, filled with amorphous malformed melodies and abyssal throbbing hues. It really is quite beautiful.
Late night music for late night minds