Labels: Catskills
Review by: Chris Bress
Like Iron & Wine, Low and Tristeza Husky Rescue sound best when on a long train journey after a hard days record shopping. The main track is similar in parts to The Album Leaf, both groups craft very melodic post-rock but are capable of writing actual songs. The song-writing reminded me of Radiohead and Mum, the style of writing was a little more indie-rock than Mum but they have a similar late night feel.
The remixes on this CD (there’s four of them) are pretty good too. The Evil 9 mix brings more percussion into the mix and rather from pushing it too far into IDM it fleets into territories recently explored on the new Psapp lp. The Linus Loves mix drags the track into very basic electro, but they don’t do a bad job. It ends up sounding almost like the electro cut on “hi scores” by Boards of Canada with a smidgen of Giorgio Moroder. The Bonobo remix is good too but after hearing the original and the mix by Evil 9 this just sounds to similar to the listener (nobody wants to listen to the same track three times in a row even if they are slightly different!). Still, Bonobo does a nice job and ends up making the song sound like Radiohead doing an Album Leaf cover over the top of Terry Riley’s “In C”.
This group would fit in well with a lot of the groups on Tiger Style as much as they would on the soundtrack to the OC.