review
Aquarius Records
South London's daydreaming guitar trio are back with a brand new offering of gorgeous electric guitar wash
and hazy ambient epiphany, this time on everyone's favorite big time of the small time label, Type. I
Could Not Love You More finds Rameses III perfecting their regal, monolithic sound, and we couldn't be
more thrilled! Majestic chords and metallic shimmer rise from the blurring horizon, heart-wrenching
melody and cinematic richness pour into the sky with a radiant ooze. Pastoral soundtracks stretched out
and slowed down into time-lapsed images of rising tides and exploding stars, blissfully huge and epic
while always grasping on to a forward moving narrative, through quiet grasslands of fingerpicked,
Takoma style acoustic guitar to swelling waves of glistening tones that grow and radiate on the verge of
feedback.
While even some of our favorite modern ambient music relies on layers and layers of digital processing,
Rameses III maintains a certain acoustic integrity by layering strictly live instruments. Electric guitars,
electric pianos, and mellotrons produce a warm, ethereal wash that brings an otherworldly depth to their sound,
a depth that digital processing could never recreate.
Ghostly and melodic, mysterious and heavy, ambient and thoughtful, I Could Not Love You More is no doubt the
trio's finest work and a perfect addition to the Type catalogue, highly recommended!
2009/00/00