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Jeniferever - Iris
Jeniferever have created something quite beautiful with 'Iris'. Their new EP is a majestic and magical trip through the delicate minds of four floppy-haired Swedish youths. Four years ago they came together with the aim of making something big, something bold, and they have succeeded sooner than most would expect.

Jeniferever share the same spirit of radical invention as their compatriots Refused. Where Refused tore everything up and daubed slogans on top of the remains, Jeniferever gently dab and wistfully consider their every move. I don't know how you wistfully consider every move, but this wondrous band have mastered it.

'Iris' is an ambition achieved as much as it is a musically ambitious statement of intent. Jeniferever have an unassailable confidence that could never be mistaken for arrogance.

Like Sigur Ros, they have created their own musical climate where anything can happen. Unlike Sigur Ros, they never sound like Enya. The epic juggernaut of 'For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky' uncoils itself slowly. Layers of beautifully realised noise rise from the ether. Guitars and drums interweave to create an unrelenting sense of urgency.

Melodies soar above the haze that simmers below. Long songs with few words couldn't sound more perfect than right at this very moment. The hypnotic ebb and flow of 'Atlantis Arise!' is simultaneously startling and reassuring. It could be some dreamscape you can't escape from and perhaps don't want to.

Sometimes our dreams provide us with the opportunity of hope we have lost in the real world. "Sometimes we're better off knowing only parts of the truth," Kristofer Jonson sings. Sometimes we're better off just listening to Jeniferever.


/Nadeem Ali
www.new-noise.net