Klone
Black Days

Klone and Pelagic records dust off some stuff from the Klone catalogue; two albums and an EP will see the light of day again this year. A thing that might be good for me who just happened to miss to review these albums back when they were released. Black Days is the darkest of the trio they release, not just because of the name. It was released in 2010 so it isn’t really an old hidden gem but now it also comes as a vinyl release for the first time and on that you get some bonus tracks as well.

To be honest, this is a band I should have given time earlier but with the amount of music that constantly flows into my mailboxes it isn’t even close to possible to even listen to everything I get, so they have been overlooked. By their style is quite personal and spans over a rather wide musical distance with traces of psykedelia, stoner rock, grunge, metal and more but it feels kind of pointless to count it all. This album is quite dark, Tool could be a good reference as well as the three listed bands that I have taken from the press sheet. A bit progressive and fresh, good production and vocalist – there are many things going for this album.

Although, I think this album has a little bit too massive sound and if you like me at this moment is a bit tired it is near impossible to remain awake while listening to the album and that is even when I am writing these words – so any incoherency is most definitely down to me almost falling asleep and the proof-reader has already fallen asleep. But it is not really that bad, I think it is a good album overall, just not the best of the ones they rerelease right now and they could have made the darkish mode a little bit better.

I think you need to be a real Klone fan to really appreciate this one, although Pharaoh Ramses claimed in a tweet that it was a strong album and who am I to argue with such a guy? Not really as good as I know these guys are capable of but not too disappointing either, certainly not a band that can be considered too much of a clone.

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