These Nights Are Ours

  Bersarin Quartett by Bersarin Quartett   Bersarian Quartett’s self-titled debut is a clinic in melancholy music.  It channels hopelessness, futility, and fatalism in a way that few albums have before its release and few have matched since.  The album refuses to give the listener a moment’s peace, a fleeting glimpse of happiness or any mortem of joy.   That’s not to say that the album is simply soul-crushing, the album has life and with it direction.  However, what the album does with that life is bring with it an acceptance that things will never be better than the miserable existence that is laid before the listener.   Through the first notes of the opening track Oktober the listener is greeted with slow and drawn out strings that accompany the dark ambient backing.  The music paints strong imagery - painting views of faceless workers trudging endlessly through the rain.  All color has been washed away from their countenance and the environment around them.  They march endlessly i