Sádon

One year after their debut EP Earth, the St-Petersburg based duo are back with their first full-length release soberly entitled Fire+Water. As the titled suggests, this album was originally planned as two separate EPs in which opposite colors & tones are explored, but from the electric drones & melody-drenched distortion of Fire to the sonic foam of Water everything still seems to retain the same sense of peculiarity & despair. During 50 minutes Sádon increase their remarkable range of emotions, each track bringing up new elements, like the dronish opening “Desolation” that ends in a ghostly groove, or the eerie Water Started that sounds like if Birds of Passage stole Wayne Coyne’s drugs. But don’t worry, even though there are a lot of surprises on this album, Sanya & Donat’s music is still as harsh and frigid as their native Russia, it just never sounded so solemnly fragile.