New Review (For Epic 45)

Dear all;

Here is a new album review for you featuring Epic 45 with their new album "Against the Pull of Autumn"

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Name of Act: Epic 45

Album Title: Against the Pull of autumn

Label: Where are my records (http://www.wherearemyrecords.net)

In some ways I prefer Instrumental albums to more vocal led albums.

This doesn't mean I hate albums by Singers. Albums like "Grace" by Jeff Buckley are among my all time favorite albums, but if you are not careful you can find yourself completely forgetting the tunes, which in their own way are just as important with the very fundamentals of music itself.

Take Epic 45's current (or new if you like) album "Against the Pull of Autumn". Aside from the occasional burst of vocals, this is an album that talks to you directly through it's music rather it's vocals, so even when a vocalist does appear in the song, it's vocals are usually mixed low enough in the mix so they come across as little more than another instrument themselves rather in the effect Mogwai used to use on their earlier records which made me think almost – I've heard all of this before.

However, the band's strengths lie when drop the Mogwai comparisons and embrace the more even widening cinematic feel of "Godspeed you Black Emperor!" Or "Explosions in the Sky" in tracks like almost twelve-minute title track, which begins off as a Piano song almost akin to John Cage or Philip Glass territory, but starts building up slowly
With slight layers of feed-back and drums in the 4th or 5th minute territory and leaves you wondering where it can lead to next, or the all too short finale track "River Traffic" which explodes into life half-way through with a wonderful guitar solo.

Either way, I recommend this album to people who like their music to be ever widening and ever expanding to take them into directions that they are not expecting. Although I am not perhaps as keen as their vocal led tracks, the instrumentation more than makes up for it and when they let rip with the guitars on the finale, it honestly leaves you almost breathless.

good stuff…