Early & Often

With the help of immaculate production, their ambitious use of layers of instrumentation crafts intricate build-ups that don’t lean too heavily on the typical guitar-based structures. The culmination of the vocals and the instrumentation is best exemplified in opener “Under The Phase”, which, after a rather pointless three-minute-plus audio sample, utilizes minimalistic instrumental work and crooning vocals to build tension, before erupting in a wall of guitar-noise and the strained cries of Wright. Moments like that, of such raw emotion following a finely-detailed composition, are rare in post-rock especially, and it’s worth every second of the nine-minutes it takes to arrive.