专辑简介

Bratislava electro-pop quartet presents their fourth album. ‘The forest and the hunting’ as the title translates has an urban sound to it but displays a dark longing to nature. And whoever been to Slovakia knows what rural means in a country with the Tatra mountains and the alluring Slovakian Paradise. In that sense the album title is a good choice, there is something eerie about Noisecut’s music. Opener ‘December’ starts with a foghorn-like drone, overtaken by Japonec’ guitar while M and Losos create a pounding rhythm. Singer Bet-Maj Sepja speaks/sings how she wants to escape the cold and the winter. Central theme seems to be escapism. Single ‘Jazda ‘(Drive) is about wanting to skip from the big town and escape to the forest. In the video guestrapper Lyrik drives into the forest where Sepja awaits him like a pagan nymph. ‘Dáta taja dych’ (Computer-Data hide its breath) tells about the longing for human contact instead of empty internet-connections. Desillusioned Bet-Maj sings “if I delete you, you don´t exist for me”. On ‘V krajine bez mora’ (In the land without the sea) she dreams of a life near the sea but is confined to the big city. But ‘Mariena’ is the best track on the album. Already winning a Radio Head award in 2010 the song re-appears on this album in a new version. The song brings in musical elements from Slovakian folklore and tells the story about the mysterious Mary. Normal girl during the day she changes at night when she is lured into pagan forest rituals: “you are on your knees and look to the candle light / you pray, your heart is warm / but everything has changed / Mariena, you are forced to dance with snakes / you´ll dance in trance for whole night”. As an electro-pop combo Noisecut makes with ‘Háj & lov’ a step forward in creating a more organic album with acoustic instruments over the electronics. In doing so they create a more all-round popsound and it suits them. Listen to a track like ‘Tanjuc!’ to hear what I mean. An interesting start of the year for Slovakia.

Radio Head Award 2011 winning album ( best slovak record of 2011)