Bands from places with a lot of sky tend to make records that sound like the place instead of the band. The arrangements here are built in layers, strings and brass and a drum sound recorded in a big empty space, and they move slowly enough that a distracted listener will mistake them for background. In a room, with the volume where it should be, that is impossible. The slowness becomes the point and the build at the end of a song arrives like weather coming across a plain. This is music for people who like being made to wait. The audience is quiet in a way that is now rare and faintly startling, and standing in it for ninety minutes resets something. Go alone if you can, and do not make plans for afterwards.
Bands from places with a lot of sky tend to make records that sound like the place instead of the band. The arrangements here are built in layers, strings and brass and a drum sound recorded in a big empty space, and they move slowly enough that a distracted listener will mistake them for background. In a room, with the volume where it should be, that is impossible. The slowness becomes the point and the build at the end of a song arrives like weather coming across a plain. This is music for people who like being made to wait. The audience is quiet in a way that is now rare and faintly startling, and standing in it for ninety minutes resets something. Go alone if you can, and do not make plans for afterwards.
Bands from places with a lot of sky tend to make records that sound like the place instead of the band. The arrangements here are built in layers, strings and brass and a drum sound recorded in a big empty space, and they move slowly enough that a distracted listener will mistake them for background. In a room, with the volume where it should be, that is impossible. The slowness becomes the point and the build at the end of a song arrives like weather coming across a plain. This is music for people who like being made to wait. The audience is quiet in a way that is now rare and faintly startling, and standing in it for ninety minutes resets something. Go alone if you can, and do not make plans for afterwards.