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Twilight
Here I sit, trying to catch up on everything Ive let slip through the cracks in the past few weeks, staring out the window of a bar in Nederland, Colorado. I hunch quietly with my beer, and snow begins to fall outside in the early afternoon light as bright pings of slow melodic guitar drift softly over swirling white background noise out of my headphones. A gentle voice swoons to life in a sedate manner, gliding, just touching above the surface. The subjects are sad and distant, lost somewhere deep in a dream, crouching in the dark edges of all our minds. The first track swirls and moves melting into each track following with no beginning, no end, no seam. If it were not for my insistent habit of continuously checking the display, I would argue that this entire sixty-minute album is only one track long. From track to track, a synthetic stream is forged descending slowly and completely with ebbs and pools. A momentum is established through drum crashes and dreary marching beats as vocals build only to regress back into steady pockets of beautiful, circular drones. Rising horns, strings and wind carry the album past all obstacles that might litter the way. Only occasionally does something jar you as a hit snare causes a snag, one of the few rocks in the path. This only adds to the excitement, the seductiveness of the albums drive though. It seems like a quick tear in its unconscious wanderings. At this point in the album, as I sit here, Im calm, excited and content; and Im only at what technically is track number five. The rest of the album moves and dreams forward in this manner, but never grows old or tired. Empty sadness and dark melancholy babble along, finding an artful, swelling beauty out of dead air. This is a very tasteful, well-constructed piece of art. The ability of this album to move as a whole, as an actual album, is virtually unmatched by most of its contemporaries. I dont think these guys couldve picked a more fitting title for the direction in which theyve decided to take their music. This is a perfect album for a come down or zone out. I would check it out theres nothing disappointing here.
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