Because Good Music Needs to Be Shared - Twilight Chases the Sun by Furniture


Artist: Furniture
Album Title: Twilight Chases the Sun
Release Year: 2005
Label: -n.a.-
Country: Malaysia
Keyword: Dream, post rock, shoegazing, Mono (Japanese band)
Bitrate: FLAC

According to this website, this debut album by (one of) Malaysia's leading experimental-cum-post-rock band is currently out of print, and is made available as a free download, so we thought we share this here, courtesy from us, ripped into glorious, glorious lossless audio quality.

Information about this band is not immediately available, with the band's own website looking like a too-similar attempt of trying to be like Radiohead's Dead Air Space, so we had to rely solely on our own memory, level of trustworthiness be damned. (Kidding though) Not obviously, tales of fabled and celebrated Malaysia's underground or indie bands goes back to the glorious years of the 90's, and Ronnie Khoo's Furniture is no exception, though the name is a lot more recent.

Started out as R.U.S.H., and not to be confused with the Canadian prog rock band, they were a handful number of bands along with scene stalwart Goh Lee Kwang in defining the Chinese indie scene. It's a small movement with lots of bands in the similar post rock-noise rock vein, but as how things work out at the moment, only Ronnie's R.U.S.H. successfully made it to 2011, judging by coverage in the local music-centered media and release of albums mind you.

With a new name incarnate, and on the strength of the first single "Chasing Tipperary" which was included in KLue's one and only compilation disc Decibel, 2005's Twilight Chases the Sun saw the release of one of the most beautiful and mesmerizing album to ever grace the Malaysian market. With Damn Dirty Apes, the former premier post rock band and the standard flag-bearer, losing their plot, Furniture's arrival was monumental and at just about the right time as discerning Malaysian listeners get more sophisticated in their taste and preference towards their music.

The album works like a dream suite where it greets and welcomes the listener in with a soothing jingle, readying you as you lie cuddled up in fetus position, sucking your thumb, before a glorious guitar distortion jolts you up. Replete with assuring, almost childlike angelic voice, and lyrics that depicts a faraway place where children and cherubs run hand in hand over a vast green field on a starlit night, we won't blame you if flashes of Smashing Pumpkins circa Mellon Collie pops up in your head instead, because it did to me too while I was writing that.

This is the perfect album for all those who wants to celebrate their inner child, or dreams that are long forgotten or lost, or simply enjoys dreamy, whimsical music that transport them to someplace magical and wonderful while listening to it. Highly recommended on a quiet night with the window wide open in a dark room and the listener lying on his/her back looking at the stars, while enjoying the night breeze blowing softly into his/her face. Yeah, that detailed.

It's in FLAC, baby!