 Emery
Reel
"...For and Acted Upon Through Diversions" CD
First
Flight
Genres: post-rock, instrumental rock, shoegazer
First Flight
PO Box 21631
St. Louis, MO
63109 USA
Oct 27 - Nov 2 2003 |
First
off, brilliant packaging. The St. Louis based First Flight label
has done a terrific job with ...For and Acted Upon Through
Diversions. It's simply a beautiful treasure of an album to
look at.
The music, meanwhile, is your average spacey post-rock stuff,
devoid of vocals and yet mesmerizing in its simplistically beautiful
guitar, drum, bass, and electronic arrangements. It's like a big
mash-pash of Mogwai, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Yo
La Tengo, and any number of obscure instrumental post-rock bands
and Constellation/Kranky projects and side-projects and sub-side-pet-projects.
It seems futile to pick out particular tracks on this album, as it
all pretty much acts as one big, living and breathing record. It
is rather beautiful and emotional, although a certain amount of
patience is reqiore to appreciate it as hook-filled melody isn't always
in excess. Those not attuned to the style may just find it long
and tiresome.
Overall, this is a very solid work of post-rock/shoegazer/instru-rock
goodness that deserves a look. Check out the label
website for some sound samples to try out.
86%
Matt Shimmer
[Vitals: 10 tracks, distributed by the
label, released 2003] |
