The Intersphere > Interspheres >< Atmospheres
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...Opening with the atmospheric 'Right Through Me', I get a glimpse of Mansun before, suddenly...
Hey I couldn’t help but like what I heard on The Intersphere. Partially because I like the other...
The Intersphere are a young, hard-gigging band from Germany who are making an impact on the rock...
Truth be said, there is quality, power and lots of competence in this bands playing, as the band...
The avid listener can detect the trails left by 40 years of rock history and still be surprised by The Intersphere's strongest talent: they have created a distinctly original sound that is influenced but not dominated by others. Recorded in Horus Sound Studio in Hannover under the direction of producer Fabio Trentini (Guano Apes, H-Blockx) frontman Hessler, guitarist Thomas Zipner, Sebastian Wagner (bass), and drummer Moritz Müller have delivered 12 songs with such originality that it makes it hard to place them into a just one category. They mix art rock with alternative, throw in a bit of spring reverb that floats the psychedelic guitars and creates a sound that is beyond hippie beatitude. Powerful and post-rock-modern, their sound creates the image and smell of thrashing mobs in sweaty t-shirts in small clubs and on summer festivals. If the guys are half as cool as their songs, than they will be able to handle the upcoming comparisons with bands like Muse, Dredg, or Incubus.
Especially since The Intersphere, with all their infatuation with experimentation, have never let themselves be distracted from the essence of a good song: fabricating melodies that anchor themselves a little deeper into your subconscious the more often you hear them. In short, an album that sounds as if Pink Floyd and The Police got together over a couple of magic cigarettes and talked about concept albums and perfect drummers and exchanged the recipe for the perfect song at the end of the night.
“It’s music that demands you to listen – and to put on a good set of headphones”, answers Christoph when asked how to best describe their music. It is a journey into an intermediate world that sounds like the soundtrack for a lm yet to be made. It’s not just with their music, but also with their lyrics that The Intershpere take you on a ride into foreign realms. “I have always been interested in thresholds and borders”, says Hessler. This is expressed in his lyrics: time and again you can feel the inner turmoil of someone who feels like he doesn’t really belong to the world around him and observes and describes it from the outside looking in. The album has the markings of a traditional concept album, where one song builds on another and together with the cover artwork forms a unity seen only in a work of art.
A line like “I have a place for you on google earth” somehow brings everything together: this is what progressive rock of the Facebook generation sounds like. But at any of the four’s given concerts, you won’t just fi nd young hipsters in the audience. You can also fi nd a few “rock-oldies” who experienced the progressive rock of the 70s in the audience whenever The Intersphere give one of their energy loaded club concerts.
The music video for "Prodigy Composers":
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Album tracks
- 1 - 01. Right Through Me
- 2 - 02. Prodigy Composers
- 3 - 03. Ghostwriter
- 4 - 04. Snapshot
- 5 - 05. Early Bird
- 6 - 06. In Satellites
- 7 - 07. I Have a Place for you on Google Earth
- 8 - 08. Interspheres >< Atmospheres
- 9 - 09. State of the Divine
- 10 - 10. Soap Bubbles in the Rain
- 11 - 11. The Far Out Astronaut
- 12 - 12. Tear Down the Walls