This is the first full length release from JarosÅaw LeÅkiewicz under the moniker of Opollo. The assonance with Apollo (the title of an old Brian Eno's release) is an hint of a musical direction focused on the construction of ambient music describing a planet's landscape.
The drone's quietness of "Warning Beacon" opens this release and starts the development of a track based on the juxtaposition of sounds. "Can You Hear Me?" is based on layers of guitars while "A White Oval" is a melancholic intro to
"Eruption" whose crescendo ends with "Rising" creating a sort of track in three movements. "Hour One" is a noisy track featuring even some glitches. "Suspended" returns to a cleaner musical spectrum and "Aelita" returns to the form exposed in "Rising" while "Starburst" uses the inverted form starting loud and ending searching a form of silence. "Stone Tape" closes this release with the most evocative and constructed musical spectrum.
At the crossroad between shoegaze and ambient, it could seems a release mostly for collector but, removed the debt with his influence, reveals a lot of things to develop. A nice release.