Labels: AIP
Review by: Andy Malcolm
2 tracks, 33 1/3, both take up their entire side. Not much happens during either track, but actually it’s rather ‘fun’. Or something. I have not much knowledge about this style of music. Here I compare them to a couple of other bands that I know about that they are similar to:
But basically, if you know those guys, then this is almost that sort of thing. I think they call it post rock. I will call it: no rock.
First song, “Senseless” is super quiet, with a somnambulant vibe to it. There’s a bit of guitar, slowly snaking it’s way a long the record, every now and again someone plays the piano. There are some words, but well, the singer may as well be on the moon. And in the background is this distant rumbling, that towards the end begins to sound like when they warm up the engines of the aeroplanes at Norwich airport. Sorry if you do not know this sound.
I think I prefer “Left Out”, it almost goes somewhere, like 2 milimeters. It’s a little more tuneful, and therefore more ethereal. I like that word. I think this is the song that plays when people are asleep. Or how music would sound if everyone lived underwater, and noise didn’t get messed up like it usually does when you hear sounds in a swimming pool. Or maybe it’s the type of music that creatures who live onboard giant galaxy travelling space rockets make. I don’t know. It’s dead cool though.
Grimble Grumble are a bunch of sloths. I never realised sloths could make cool music.